Homework Vocabulary

[Kou Quintana]

Havea list of vocabulary words to learn for school?

You can plug the words you need to learn into a Vocabulary List, and we'll teach them to you through the same kinds of questions you see when you play the Challenge. Not only will you learn the words faster than you would making flashcards and paging through them, our system of repeating questions on words you don't know ensures you will remember them longer.

4) Be sure to save your list as you go, give your list a name, and decide if you want it to be shared. Once you've completed it, you'll see tabs for learning your list, playing a spelling bee with it, or going back in to edit it anytime.

Want to improve your reading comprehension?

Next time you are facing a challenging reading assignment, build and learn a vocabulary list based on that assignment before you read. (You can even find electronic versions of some in-school assignments online.)

4) Once you've saved the list, you'll see that example sentences from the text have been automatically selected. You can edit them, choose others ("Browse Example Sentences"), and change the definitions ("Choose Definition").

5) Be sure to save your list as you go, give your list a name, and decide if you want it to be shared. Once you've completed it, you'll see tabs for learning your list, playing a spelling bee with it, or going back in to edit it anytime.

Yet we only have so many minutes with our students, and we need them to practice the concepts and skills they are learning until the knowledge becomes ingrained. Most students have a homeroom, study hall, or other downtime during the day in which they could complete activities, they just have to be motivated to do it.

Additionally, research shows that when students are dedicated to a task important to them, like improving their video game scores, or optimizing their success on a playing field, they will go to great lengths to improve. While probably not as meaningful as their video game level, students will be more excited to answer questions about themselves than a generic worksheet.

Step One

First, confirm that students have a strong rapport with their teacher(s). While it is difficult to cultivate a deep relationship with each student, teachers should strive to show students that they value their students and are committed to helping them learn and grow to their fullest potential. I would encourage teachers not to assign homework for the first few weeks of school until they develop a classroom community of respect and appreciation for learning.

Step Two

Second, once the classroom community has been established, teachers should specifically explain the importance of homework as a way of deeply ingraining knowledge. Teachers should also make it clear that homework is a meaningful formative assessment where both they and their students can understand what students know and where there are knowledge gaps.

Step Three

Third, some students may be quite unhappy when being mandated to do specific work. Therefore, teachers should stress the choices a student gets when completing their homework and that students get to complete the work that best reflects their own sense of self.

Step Four

Finally, the teacher should praise students individually, as well as praise the class when homework is turned in on time. Many students thrive on positive reinforcement and also many may feel guilt if they let their classmates or teacher down. Additionally, as many teachers know, a word of encouragement or a small sticker can make the difference to many.

For this post, I have a few homework assignments that model these ideas. Both in my new It's All About Me vocabulary practice page, and my tried-and true, 7 Options for Vocabulary Homework bundle, students are motivated to continue their learning because they have both choice and a focus on themselves, a topic in which they are already invested.

My new It's All About Me Vocabulary Activity tasks students with answering a series of questions about themselves using vocabulary words in context. On the first page of this download students will list their vocabulary words and write their own brief definitions. On the second page student will answer eight prompts. Each response should include at least one of the vocabulary words from their list in context. In each of their answers students must underline the context clues that would help someone unfamiliar with the word understand what it means.

With the 7 Options for Vocabulary Homework bundle, students can choose from a variety of fun and engaging activities for learning or reviewing vocabulary words. In addition to the homework selection sheet, the bundle includes worksheets for vocabulary homework ideas number five and six. The other vocabulary homework options can be completed on a plain piece of paper or in student workbooks.

Do you love to sing? Are you constantly creating your own raps? Try rewriting the lyrics to a song to incorporate each of your vocabulary words or write your own song, rap, etc. You can also write poetry; regardless of the form you choose, the words should be used in the correct context.

Do you want to play teacher and write the test as well as take it? Now you can! Create a vocabulary test using all the words in a variety of different types of questions. Make sure to create the answer key to the test as well.

Ultimately, establishing a culture of community and trust in the classroom, explaining the reasoning behind and the benefits of homework, and providing choice and meaningful topics can make a significant difference in completion rates. Even if homework is not completed on time, teachers can still work to connect with each student to provide motivation to complete the assignments.

As educators, we all strive to make learning exciting and applicable to our students. By setting up clear expectations and providing interesting options, we can make any homework, including vocabulary homework, meaningful and valuable to students.

Below is a massive list of homework words - that is, words related to homework. The top 4 are: schoolwork, classroom, teacher and practice. You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. The words at the top of the list are the ones most associated with homework, and as you go down the relatedness becomes more slight. By default, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedness, but you can also get the most common homework terms by using the menu below, and there's also the option to sort the words alphabetically so you can get homework words starting with a particular letter. You can also filter the word list so it only shows words that are also related to another word of your choosing. So for example, you could enter "schoolwork" and click "filter", and it'd give you words that are related to homework and schoolwork.

You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. If you just care about the words' direct semantic similarity to homework, then there's probably no need for this.

There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related, or even loosely associated words. So although you might see some synonyms of homework in the list below, many of the words below will have other relationships with homework - you could see a word with the exact opposite meaning in the word list, for example. So it's the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a homework vocabulary list, or just a general homework word list for whatever purpose, but it's not necessarily going to be useful if you're looking for words that mean the same thing as homework (though it still might be handy for that).

If you're looking for names related to homework (e.g. business names, or pet names), this page might help you come up with ideas. The results below obviously aren't all going to be applicable for the actual name of your pet/blog/startup/etc., but hopefully they get your mind working and help you see the links between various concepts. If your pet/blog/etc. has something to do with homework, then it's obviously a good idea to use concepts or words to do with homework.

If you don't find what you're looking for in the list below, or if there's some sort of bug and it's not displaying homework related words, please send me feedback using this page. Thanks for using the site - I hope it is useful to you! ?

That's about all the homework related words we've got! I hope this list of homework terms was useful to you in some way or another. The words down here at the bottom of the list will be in some way associated with homework, but perhaps tenuously (if you've currenly got it sorted by relevance, that is). If you have any feedback for the site, please share it here, but please note this is only a hobby project, so I may not be able to make regular updates to the site. Have a nice day! ?

Should they have to finish their schoolwork, or do extra assignments, in the form of homework? Should they join clubs, play sport, learn the piano, or take swimming lessons? Should they go to cram schools, or private classes, to keep on studying or learning? Or should they be allowed to relax and rest after a day of studying at school?

In my case, in the UK we would usually finish classes around 3pm and leave school straight away. I would usually have about an hour of homework, but not too much, and I played rugby in the evening twice a week.

First, a study in the High School Journal showed that students who spent over 30 minutes on homework a day averaged 40 points higher on tests than students who did no homework at all. Second, two meta-studies on the impact of homework (so research papers collecting and comparing lots of different studies) found that homework was effective in improving academic performance and achievement most of the time.

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