Saturday, July 16, 2022

Feature #12: Flocabulary


Flocabulary www.flocabulary.com is a very useful tool and platform with numerous short videos that can help teachers teach current events and historical topics. With each video, it has remarkable graphics along with upbeat songs that allows teaching more fun. To sign up, you can easily go to the website and create a username by entering your email address.  Using the platform, Flocabulary, you can easily find videos that match lessons that can be exciting and fun for the children. The children are able to watch videos after learning about a certain topic and completing interactive lyrics worksheets. Using Flocabulary at the end of units also helps students remember better the topic they covered.

Flocabulary is very highly engaging for student learning. It has engaging lessons and videos that engage learning through hip hop that covers the lesson. It has vocabulary cards that build word knowledge, vocabulary games that test word knowledge through numerous interactive exposures, read and respond, practice reading passages and answer dependent questions, a quiz that assess lesson comprehension by auto-graded quiz, and lyric lab that students can demonstrate their mastery by rhyme writing. Flocabulary helps children build vocabulary, master standards, and develop 21st-century skills. 

*Contribution by R.Kohler

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