games, word scrambles, and interactive flashcards make studying vocabulary words fun and can improve retention. Some of this week's sites offer built in vocabulary lists, and others allow you to input your own words. Have fun!
The best way to increase one's vocabulary is to read voraciously. But if you have a particular set of words you want to learn (perhaps with an eye on increasing your verbal score on college entrance exams) these fives sites make fun out of learning words
It used to be that only the newspaper was daily, but on the Internet there are lots of sites that publish every day. The following fun sites are all very different from each other. The first is a comic strip, the next is a history site, the third one is
Charles Shultz has been writing and drawing the Peanuts comic strip for nearly fifty years.
Take a peek back in time with this History Channel feature, which brings you not just one historic event ("November 1, 1765: Parliament Enacts the Stamp Act.
Lots of sites produce a Cool Site of the Day feature, but WorldVillage delivers one that is always family-friendly.
"Why do fish live in salt water?" Alexander, age 10, tells us "Because pepper makes them sneeze.
"The music and magic of words — that's what A.
It used to be that only the newspaper was delivered daily. Now, a popular Internet genre is "... of the Day." This week I've chosen five sites that feature a daily word activity. I've found daily word definitions, idioms, word games and quotations. When v
Quotes of the Day provides four daily quotations from an eclectic collection both contemporary (Steven Wright: "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Got two minutes? These daily puzzles for high-schoolers and adults come in five formats, playing with definitions, synonyms, antonyms, word ladder transformations, slang, even some history and geography.
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