U.S. News Names Vocabulary.com a "Website for High School Teachers to Try"

Here at Vocabulary.com headquarters, we love to see the word getting out about what we're doing, as when Time and PC Magazine both included us on their year-end lists of top websites. But it's especially gratifying when Vocabulary.com gets showcased as a tool for educators, as U.S. News & World Report has done by naming us one of "3 Websites for High School Teachers to Try in 2013."

Here's what U.S. News had to say:

Dubbed one of the "50 Best Websites of 2012" by Time, the premise of the site is relatively straight forward.

"The site beefs up your word power with more than 40,000 multiple-choice questions and refines its choices as it learns about your knowledge of the English language," Harry McCracken writes in the Time article.

Teachers can create vocabulary lists to complement lesson plans or build up students' word banks with premade lists such as "PSAT Words," "NAEP Test Words," and "100 Top SAT Words." Literature teachers transitioning to the Common Core State Standards might also like "10 Words from Today's NY Times," "Loaded Words from the Gun Violence Debate," or "President Obama's second inaugural address."

If you're a high school teacher or other educator, we encourage you to check out our Vocabulary Lists and try your hand at making your own, appropriate to your curriculum and student needs. Whether it's your own list or someone else's, you can have your students learn the words as part of the Vocabulary.com Challenge. We've got more teacher-friendly enhancements in the pipeline, so stay tuned!