Please don’t ask what titan is!  The full chemical name for “titin”, the largest protein ever discovered, is 189,819 letters long!  Learn more long words in the Oxford English Dictionary here.

Make sure you viewed the first video posted below about what is an anology.  Now view this video on various different types of analogies.

Practice all the diiferent analogies using online games. Vocabulary.co.il is a leading vocabulary website worldwide with the best flash online word games. Play here Vocabulary.co.il.

The official Quizlet app is here! It's a free, fun, and beautifully simple way to study on your iPhone. Seamless syncing means all your Quizlet study sets are ready to use. Or search Quizlet's database of over 15 million flash card sets to find content already created. Pick from 3 mobile-only study modes to suit your learning style. Plus, with full offline support you can study anywhere — even without an internet connection.

Ask your parents to create an account for you.  Search for our lists and start studying anywhere, anytime!

Don't forget to practice analogies as well. Practice with the links on this site and you can also download the free app Analogy 1.0. You need to understand relationships between pairs of concepts. We use analogies every day when we want to compare things in order to explain what we are trying to say. In every aspect of education, from math and science to art and language, analogies are a useful way of learning new things. Make sure you practice!

"Whooo"se class will be the proud owner of "Wally Wise" for List #1?  The first class to get four students' names next to each word will have bragging rights to "Wally Wise."  You get to write your name next to a word on your list of you find a word in your reading, if you use it in your writing correctly, or if you say the word in an appropriate context in class. 

Have fun!

Practice Identifying Synonyms

Practice Identifying Antonyms

Choose your level!

By adding a free service to your browser, children can look up unfamiliar words and begin to recognize SAT vocabulary words. Professor Word is a browser bookmarklet that can be added to Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. When reading a webpage, students can click on the Professor Word bookmarklet to quickly identify SAT vocabulary words on that page. They can also use Professor Word to get definitions for any unfamiliar word on a webpage. To get a definition just highlight the word a small dialogue box containing the definition will appear.

"The WordMasters Challenge is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 which encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning.  Over 4,200 school teams, from 50 states, participated last year. It challenges students to solve analogies based on relationships among words they have learned, and it draws these analogies from special vocabulary lists, which students study before each meet. Unlike other language-arts contests, which emphasize grammar and punctuation, this competition addresses higher-level word-comprehension and logical abilities and helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically." 

This blog will provide opportunities for you to study definitions and practice analogies.  It is important for you to find time in your busy schedules to study the words, find them in your reading, and use them while writing and speaking. Then, you will truly own them. 

Additional information will be posted to this page as the year progresses. We will post pictures, projects, and activities on this site.

First Competition will be administered
the week of December 3rd.