Get them to learn with graphic organizers and concept mapping.Recommended apps include Google Slides, Edubuncee, Canva, Book Creator, or EduGlogster. They can create digital books classifying rocks, identifying bugs, naming plants and potential uses, or capturing the sounds of various birds. Take them on walks exploring the nature around them.Get them to visualize vocabulary by playing digital games! Check out any of these sites to find games for adolescents: Learning Games for Kids, Kindersite, Learn English Kids, Sheppard Software, Pumkin English, TinyTap, and Nick Jr. .Very young learners will enjoy playing sight word games.Find other popular vocabulary learning games here, here, and here. Students will enjoy learning vocabulary by playing charades, Pictionary, and Bingo.Check out Cullen’s ABC’s free videos for young learners. Teach vocabulary with songs, finger plays, and chants.Check out my digital poster teaching children “ Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” Research shows that one of the best ways to learn vocabulary is through Total Physical Response (TPR), which is combining language and physical movement.

Introduce useful strategies through posters or infographics, such as using prefixes, roots, suffixes and cognates to guess the meaning of words.

Allow students to add to class Word Walls or to draw new vocabulary on butcher paper taped to a wall.

Students and you should fill the classroom walls with visual examples of vocabulary you are learning throughout the year.

This article has several types of vocabulary and word journal activities and Google Slide templates.

Check out these tempates- ( GSlides Language Notebook and Buncee Visual Dictionary).

Students can create a digital visual word journal or dictionary using Google Slides or Buncee.

Encourage students to keep a visual vocabulary learning journal with new words they learn each day from class, tv, on the Internet, etc.

During class discussions keep a vocabulary list on the side with new words that emerge.

What is the definition for _?', 'Translate _ into _ (language)', and ' What are synonyms/antonyms _?' Students can use the commands, 'Hey Siri/ Alexa/ Google.

Encourage students to use voice assistants/virtual butlers, such as Siri, Alexa, or Google to define words, find synonyms, and find antonyms.Getting learners used to the idea of looking up vocabulary makes them more autonomous.Show learners how to look up words using their own devices, online dictionaries, dictionary apps, and extensions.

Free vocabulary websites for teachers