Sunday, April 6, 2008

Practice Vocabulary and Feed the Hungry

Hello McKinley High School English teachers! I just discovered a wonderful website that I would like to share with you all. It is called freerice.com and it is set up as a vocabulary game that provides rice to the United Nations World Food Program at every correct answer. Here are the directions for how to play:


Click on the answer that best defines the word.
If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word.
For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance... (more)

This looks like a fantastic website that provides its users with practice decoding and defining difficult vocabulary words as well as an opportunity to help others in need. Perhaps someone could use this in their classes! I'm really excited by this website - it must be inspiration from the vocabulary seminar I attended last Wednesday...
- Kate

1 comment:

Joel said...

That's a sweet site, but holy Mark Twain! Those words are difficult. After the first two I was like..."well...it's probably this."