Skills 205: Vocabulary

Welcome!

Here you will find selected links to online explanations, exercises, quizzes, tools, and resources that you can work on on your own.

If you are enrolled in a self-paced Skills course and would like to work on the course for credit, please see Skills staff for the tracking form and login information for Skills Tutor software.

You may also click on any of the links below to see what might help you the most.

Prepare for a Standardized Test

Tools

• http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
  Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus
• http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
  This visual thesaurus can give you some amazing (and beautiful) information about words.
• http://www.edict.com.hk/studyguide/concorda.htm
  This "Web Concordancer" lets you type in a word or phrase to search for in a file of texts and find real-life examples of words and phrases.
• Compleat Lexical Tutor Lots of tools including an easy search for vocabulary words in sentences.

Strategies for Improving Vocabulary

• http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/vocabula.htm#Vocabulary%20Strategies
  Four strategies from Centre for Independent Language Learning
• http://www.dvc.edu/english/Learning_Resources/ESL.htm
  Vocubulary resources from Diablo Valley College
• http://www.csupomona.edu/~lrc/crsp/handouts/context_clues.html
  Using context clues to figure out the meaning of words as you read, from CSU Pomona

Self Study Courses

• http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/vocabula.htm
  Includes how to determine what you need to learn, strategies, materials, and tests.
• http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/vocabulary.html

Articles & Stories with Vocabulary Excercises

Vocabulary for English Language Learners (Ohio State University)

• http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
  Articles on a variety of topics from CNN. Choose a story, then do vocabulary-building activities.
• http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/wnews/default.htm
• http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/comp/ReadComp.htm