Essay Writing Vocabulary Crossword

[Assunta Gergely]

Firstparagraph that introduces the topic of your essay.

Last paragraph of your essay that gives your final thoughts on a topic.

Paragraphs that give examples and evidence to support your thesis and topic of your essay.

Sentence stating the main point of your essay.

The fourth stage of the writing process.

The person(s) for whom you are writing.

Reading over each draft for mistakes .

The roughly written copy of your essay.

The polished and complete copy of your essay.

Final stage of writing

The reason for writing.

The first stage of writing .

The second stage of writing.

The third stage of writing.

Your position or opinion on a topic.

Writing out thoughts on a topic to figure out ideas for a topic.

Words or sentences that they are moving to the next paragraph.

Basic plan for organizating your essay.

Visiual map used to organize ideas.

Next to the crossword will be a series of questions or clues, which relate to the various rows or lines of boxes in the crossword. The player reads the question or clue, and tries to find a word that answers the question in the same amount of letters as there are boxes in the related crossword row or line.

The fantastic thing about crosswords is, they are completely flexible for whatever age or reading level you need. You can use many words to create a complex crossword for adults, or just a couple of words for younger children.

Crosswords can use any word you like, big or small, so there are literally countless combinations that you can create for templates. It is easy to customise the template to the age or learning level of your students.

Crosswords are a great exercise for students' problem solving and cognitive abilities. Not only do they need to solve a clue and think of the correct answer, but they also have to consider all of the other words in the crossword to make sure the words fit together.

Crosswords are a fantastic resource for students learning a foreign language as they test their reading, comprehension and writing all at the same time. When learning a new language, this type of test using multiple different skills is great to solidify students' learning.

We have full support for crossword templates in languages such as Spanish, French and Japanese with diacritics including over 100,000 images, so you can create an entire crossword in your target language including all of the titles, and clues.

They are especially for intermediate-level students of English. Even if your level is lower you should be able to complete them using the word list on the right side of the page plus the clues.Most of the crosswords use vocabulary taught in the English Detective newsletter. For those I have given the newsletter number after the links to the crossword and its answers.

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Reading is a skill used throughout life, not just on the reading comprehension section of the SAT or ACT. The more you read, the faster and easier it becomes to comprehend what you read. Although there are specific categories for SAT and ACT reading passages, including history/social studies, science, and literature, you can read any genre and improve your reading comprehension skills. Reading at least 30 minutes a day increases intelligence, improves sleep, strengthens social connections, and enhances career opportunities.

Like reading, writing is a skill you will most likely use the rest of your life. Remember learning those five steps in the writing process? First, pre-writing, then drafting, followed by revision, editing, and finally, publishing. While this process does take time, you can improve your writing by following each of these steps every time you write an essay or paper, especially focusing on the editing stage. Although there is no longer an essay on the SAT and the essay is optional on the ACT, students will still be expected to edit writing passages on the SAT and ACT. And like reading, the more you write, the better writer you become. Keeping a journal is a great way to practice those writing skills on a daily basis.

In high school math class, especially Algebra I and II, pay attention and take time to really understand the math concepts. Your grade may be cushioned by homework completion points, but if you do not fully grasp the math itself, it will come back to haunt you in future math classes and on standardized tests like the SAT or ACT.

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I see there is a Quizlet plug in. I was curious what else others have used or if you could share your experiences with teaching vocab through Moodle, whether it was through 3rd party websites, plug in, etc...

Firstly, creating your own material is very time consuming but it's probably unavoidable if you are complimenting existing course materials. I try to focus on collocations a lot and use the book activity combined with prepared glossaries. If you add in the Game activity, you can create crosswords and other word games from glossaries and quizzes. Using this combination, you can create a good variety of activities for learners. If you are teaching ELT, then the Vocabulary in Use series from Cambridge University Press offer lots of ideas that can be adapted.

Although the concept is out of favour with some teachers, Moodle is good for drilling vocabulary. With a large database of questions you can create quizzes that evolve (using random questions). My weaker learners particularly like this, as they can practice in private which relieves the peer pressure.

On a theoretical note, I'd recommend you have a look at Michael Lewis's book, Implementing the Lexical Approach. It's focused on English as a foreign language, but the principles apply to all languages. It adds considerable leverage to vocabulary learning and certainly helped me to get the most out of Moodle's potential.

The Quizlet plugin handles the embed of the activity, but as you have discovered that is possible to do by hand. The real benefit is that you can import quizlet sets as multichoice and short answer questions, direct to the Moodle question bank complete with pictures. And you can rapidly create Quizlet activities that have a time based conditional completion setting. (So you can be sure your students at least opened the activity for X minutes.) Its actually a commercial plugin. But contact me anyway if you want to talk about it.

Also I used PoodLL Flashcards a lot, and in different ways when I was teaching. Mostly for pair practice and not for memory style learning. I would make flashcard sets based on words / grammar we were learning, and often mixed in teachers or students names into the prompt on the card. Student loved it because it was fun and felt like a game. Each student would read the prompt on the front of the card to their partner, and their partner would have to make something from it. eg

I've been asked to provide a crossword activity for practicing concepts in a second year Law course. Personally I don't find the crossword particularly effective for such a purpose. The crossing of words and the typical conversion of phrases to one lower/upper case word are more a distraction than useful cues. Flashcard activities are probably much more suitable for concept drilling than crosswords. But for various mostly irrelevant reasons it was decided to go with crosswords.

The easy route was to use the game plugin. But the game plugin doesn't seem to have a solid ongoing support. It also contains much more than may be needed, without a clean way to remove unwanted components. And so I decided to construct a minimal crossword plugin as a dataformfield sub-plugin of the Dataform activity.

A typical implementation would consist of a Dataform activity with a crossword field, a view which displays the list of attempts and a view which displays a single attempt in editing mode. The concepts and definitions are entered in the field configuration as concept-definition pairs, separated by a space (as the concept is rendered as one word), each pair in a new line. Other settings in the field allow for controlling the crossword dimensions (max row size) and min and max number of words.

In a typical usage users add an entry for a crossword attempt. The crossword is generated on entry creation. It is displayed and can be solved when editing the entry. Current solution is stored when saving the entry. Depending on the number of available concepts, subsequent entries will generate different crosswords. In the attempts list it is possible to display the number of words in the attempt, number of letters, number of words solved, and completion % (number of letters solved / number of letters).

To learner A, you give the words across, which they use to fill in their half of the puzzle. While they're doing that, they can think of the best clues they can to describe/define the words to their partner, B.

Because the learners have to think for themselves about the concepts and how to describe/define them, and because it's for a social, collaborative purpose, i.e. a social game, they're far more likely to #1 - ensure that they understand their set of concepts really clearly, and #2 - remember the concepts that their partner explains to them; because it triggers particular aspects of our social, collaborative nature, i.e. we tend to be much better at remembering stuff that has social currency/value, e.g. something a friend or colleague tells us or discusses with us (Can't remember the specific research papers right now).

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