A word wall is pretty much what it sounds like — a classroom wall reserved for a word display. Most teachers associate word walls with emergent readers, but word walls are no longer just the stuff of elementary schools. Word walls can be used effectively to help students at all levels to learn vocabulary.  Continue reading...

Students: try to find as many words as you can that are defined using all four parts of speech on the Visual Thesaurus (i.e., noun, adjective, verb, and adverb). E-mail us with your list of words and we'll send the winner who has accurately compiled the longest list some swell Visual Thesaurus swag (if you don't know what that is, look it up!). The deadline is a fortnight after the ides of March (again, look it up!).

Here are some great online resources for getting children interested in poetry.

Poetry4Kids

Giggle Poetry

Favorite Poem Project

Scholastic Poetry

The 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee will be held in Washington D.C. Get in the spelling spirit by trying the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee.

The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the National School Boards Association's T+L Conference, held in Denver, CO. In addition, Georgia Scurletis, director of curriculum development for the Visual Thesaurus, will be presenting "The Visual Thesaurus: a dynamic approach to vocabulary development," in conjunction with the New York Times Learning Network. Click here for conference details.

The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Conference, Orlando, FL. Visit us at Booth # 536! Click here for conference details.

The third WordMasters Challenge of the year. Click here for details.