How to Use This Site
Additional Tips for Teachers
Teacher Central:The first option on the Teacher Info menu leads to a page called Teacher Central. It combines teacher and non-teacher menu choices that are most used by teachers.
Click "▶" or "▼" at left to see how they work:
- When you see "▶" outside of quotes, clicking/touching it provides more detail.
- When you see "▼" outside of quotes, clicking/touching it removes detail to provide a better overview.
The most popular and most carefully edited quizzes are listed on the pages:
High School Books with Popular Quizzes &
Middle School Books with Popular Quizzes
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The computer does a reasonable job of selecting words, sample sentences, and wrong answers, but quizzes are better when edited by a human.Let us know if you need one of the unedited books optimized for a class. Also, if there's a word we should add to a book's quiz, tell us which word (and preferably which word to remove to make room for it).
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To make it easy for you to check a question, the printable quiz Answer Key has a † following the answer to any question that has not been checked by an editor.Details
The page is more easily seen and navigated with a computer or tablet screen. But the same information is available on a smartphone.Note that you can:
- Show different groups of words.
- Sort words in various ways—such as by chapter.
- Click Show to see exemplary samples.
- Click "▶" near any word to see the word used in a sentence from the book and more.
- Search for a specific word via a searchbox that appears towards the top-left when more than 20 words are showing.
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You can also click Further limit words, to:- Select words by chapter.
- Select words by difficulty level
- Ask that words be selected or underlined if they are more commonly used in a selected subject area.
Finally, the page has a footnote that tells how to move to the top of the page in your browser.
To get a quick overview of a quiz choose View Printable Quiz from the book's menu. It displays the same questions asked on the interactive (computer-administered) quiz. Answers (and possibly questions) can be shuffled on the printable quiz and are automatically shuffled on the interactive quiz.
Details of quiz options
- Computer administered or Printed quiz
- Top-Ranked words or Extra Credit words
- Pre-Reading or Post-Reading quiz
- Pre-Reading quizzes use sentences tailored for optimal learning.
- Post-Reading quizzes reinforce learning with sentences from the book.
Teachers who don't use written tests can see quiz results via an emailed screen shot, immediate classroom display, or printout.
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The interactive quiz, is a completion quiz. It cannot be completed without getting every answer right. It will report the number of attempts required to get each answer correct. If students want 1 attempt per question, they can repeat the test.How to Capture Screenshots
iPhone/Pad
- Press and then quickly release the side button and the volume-up buttons at the same time.
- The screenshot is automatically saved with other photos or can be opened by tapping its thumbnail.
Android
- Depending upon your device, press and hold one of these pairs of buttons until the screen flashes.
- the sleep/wake and volume-down button
- the power and home buttons
- The screenshot is automatically saved with other photos.
Windows Computer
- Press the [PrtScn] button.
- The screenshot is on your clipboard and can be pasted into an email by holding the [Ctrl] key down when you press the letter [v].
Mac Computer
- Press Control-Shift-Command-3.
- The screenshot is on your clipboard and can be pasted into an email by pressing Command-V.
Encourage independent vocabulary work by granting extra credit for these additional quizzes.
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- the extra credit words quiz associated with whatever the class is reading
- top-ranked words quizzes associated with independent reading