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Vocabulary:

• Allwords.com: English dictionary with a multilingual search feature, puzzles, translation features in multiple languages, theasauri, quotations, glossaries, etymologies, and much more: www.allwords.com
• Children's Picture Dictionary - see a picture and hear it pronounced in British English
• Dolch high-frequency words with free flashcards, phrases, and games
• Etymology dictionary online: free and easy-to-use. Explains word origins.
• Ezine with vocabulary column: www.word-detective.com
• FreeRice- free site in which students' correct answers donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations' World Food Program: http://www.freerice.com/
• Funbrain vocabulary quiz - shows a picture, click on the correct name: www.funbrain.com/vocab/index.html
• Hello-world: songs, activities, games. Great for younger kids.
• High-frequency word lists- the 2000 most common words: http://www.ingilish.com/2000mostcommonwords.htm and http://www.edict.com.hk/lexiconindex/frequencylists/words2000.htm . A discussion about teaching them.
• Interactive Audio-picture English lessons: pronunciation and terms: www.web-books.com/Language
• Internet Picture Dictionary - FREE, search by category, first letter, or by word. In English, French, German, Italian, & Spanish: www.pdictionary.com/
• Itools: dictionaries, idioms & slang, other word support, theasaurus, crossword solver, unscramble word solver, translation tools: www.itools.com/lang/
• Learning vocabulary fun: games for younger students
• Literacy Matters vocabulary site
• Marzano's word lists: the academic words we must explicitly teach and reinforce in the content areas based upon statistical occurence in academic text, and how to teach them - Danger alert: make sure to teach them in context with the curriculum for your grade level. In other words, if the third grade list contains words taught in your fourth grade curriculum, hold off and teach them when you teach the content. Align them with your scope and sequence. Memorizing lists of words out of context, even with explanation, is not a tenable strategy: http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/ and http://sig.cls.utk.edu/TAV/Word_Docs/WordList_Final%208206.doc
• Onelook reverse dictionary
• Online dictionaries: www.onelook.com, www.yourdictionary.com, www.m-w.com, www.allwords.com
• Rhymezone: goes far beyond just rhyming. Do a search for antonyms, synonyms, spelling, quotations, and one of my favorites - match letters to find all words featuring a morphological feature you'd like (roots, prefixes, suffixes) http://www.rhymezone.com/
• Scrabble online: free to play online alone or with up to 3 opponents
• Shahi visual dictionary combines Wiktionary definitions with Flickr images
• Spelling: strategies for solving words , Spellbee is a cooperative spelling bee online, as is Tutpup, Interactives spelling bee tests words within passages, leveled by grade, SpellCheck gives 20 words. Students must select the incorrectly spelled word and correct it. Spelling City allows students to add their own list of words, BigIQBee allows students to pick a level & tests them, Spin.and.Spell is a mix between basic English vocabulary and spelling in a game format- great for ELLs, Spelling Bee uses a visual thesaurus, Word Builder ;Spelling Helper high-frequency words, in the context of sentences, with pronunciation:
  ReadingFromScratch tells spelling rules
• Tip of my tongue: free, if you know some things, such as the and/or last letter, some of the other letters the word includes, maybe some synonyms, it'll help you find it. Not an all-inclusive word database though...
• Visuwords: visually graphs words in relation to meanings, associations, parts of speech, derivations. Outstanding site: http://www.visuwords.com/
• Vocabulary puzzles and games (includes test-prep section): www.vocabulary.com
• Web vocabulary profiler: This program will then tell you how many word types the text contains from the following four frequency levels: (1) the list of the most frequent 1000 word families, (2) the list of the second 1000 word families, (3) the Academic Word List, and (4) the words that do not appear in any of the preceding lists. http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/textools/web_vp.html
• Word Builder: spelling, vocabulary organized by grade level
• Word histories: Etymology, includes many languages and free - E.L.Easton, Greek & Latin roots - Wordquests, www.wordcentral.com , words borrowed from other languages - Krysstal.com
• Wordle: creates word-cloud art from the text you provide
• Wordnik online dictionary