Author: Flocabulary Team

Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to championship celebrations, fights for the presidency, protests, international incidents, toxic food and scandalous allegations. Each week, we’ll highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once they beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK stranded (adjective) -- left behind or cut off Why it matters: Over 100 dolphins have been…

Check out the lyrics and more. Nobody wants to read boring sentences. So every writer from Charles Dickens to Lupe Fiasco uses a technique that makes their words jump off the page. They use figurative language. Figurative language means that the words you use don't have their literal meaning, but instead are meant to be imaginative, vivid and evocative. So what is figurative language? Simply, it makes writing more interesting. Our new, free figurative language song covers 11 common types of figurative language, from metaphor and simile to juxtaposition and onomatopoeia. This lesson plan uses the song as a jumping off…

Today we're featuring our new video, "Bottom of the Ninth" from our complete vocabulary curriculum, The Word Up Project. It's a vocabulary song all about baseball, and it's free for the whole month of February. So why not review the vocabulary by actually playing a round of America's favorite pastime? Word Up Vocabulary Baseball Game Materials Needed Use the Fix the Mistake or Pick the Winner worksheet for the Word Up Unit you're working on. Here's the worksheet for "Bottom of the Ninth." You can find worksheets for other units by clicking on Exercises in the right panel of each song…