9 free vocabulary resources. Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word building. Typically taught from Year 1 to Year 12.
Students learn that synonyms are words with a similar meaning and antonyms are words with the opposite meaning. They choose synonyms,…
Students learn that synonyms are not all equal: 'annoyed', 'cross' and 'furious' describe different amounts of anger. They choose the…
Students learn that a prefix is added to the start of a word to change its meaning (un-, re-, pre-, mis-, sub-, dis-) and a suffix is…
Students learn to tell similes (comparisons using 'like' or 'as') from metaphors (which say one thing is another), explain what figurative…
Students learn two tools for unlocking vocabulary: Greek and Latin roots, which explain the meaning of thousands of English words, and…
Students build the vocabulary that assessment questions and essays rely on: analyse, evaluate, justify, infer, significant, hypothesis and…
Students work with fifteen high-frequency academic words drawn from the Academic Word List, the words that appear across textbooks, exam…
Students learn two tools that mark mature academic writing. Nominalisation turns verbs and adjectives into nouns (decide → decision,…
Analysis is only as precise as its words. This guide organises the vocabulary senior English students need: verbs for what composers,…