New Vocabulary Worksheet Factory 4

Schoolhouse Technologies is pleased to announce the release of Vocabulary Worksheet Factory 4. This upgrade has hundreds of improvements and new features that will make providing vocabulary building worksheets for your students easier than ever. Designed for educators as a resource to support classroom instruction, but ideal for anyone interested in making word searches, crosswords, word jumbles, and other vocabulary puzzles and activities, Vocabulary Worksheet Factory is the ultimate all-in-one program for vocabulary education and entertainment. One program, 30 activities. See below for descriptions and samples of all the worksheet activities.

What's new in version 4

• Nine more worksheet activities with special emphasis on spelling exercises:
  • Spelling Challenge: find the correct spelling in a group of misspellings
  • Spelling Hunt: find the misspellings in a sentence
  • Spelling Quest: find the misspellings in a text selection
• Other new worksheet activities include:
  • Secret Trails: find the word trail through the maze of letters
  • Sentence Finishers: students are given the beginning or end of a sentence and they finish it
  • Mixed-Up Text: sentences and paragraphs are mixed up in a block of text and must be put in the correct order
• The addition of a Study Sheet so students can practice their word lists.
• A Word Counts activity to provide a word count for oral reading assessments.
• New options and capabilities for many of the existing worksheet activities.
• The introduction of rich text format (.rtf) to the text worksheets. You can now customize your text using common font features like bold and italics.
• A new export feature for exporting a worksheet as a PDF file.
• The word list, sentence, epigraph, and text editors now have a check-your-spelling as you type option and a thesaurus.
• A less cluttered options pane, making it easier to find the worksheet options you want to customize. The first page header (now the Title Group), and the regular header and footer have been moved to their own options windows accessible from the main toolbar of the program.
• A universal font tool that can help you customize the font for one or more worksheets.
• And much more.

Challenge and motivate your students in any subject

Improve and reinforce the vocabulary skills of your students with challenging and motivating worksheet activities created with Vocabulary Worksheet Factory. It is the ideal resource for spelling, language arts, ESL instruction, and vocabulary enrichment in any subject. Below are just a few of the areas where Vocabulary Worksheet Factory will make a dramatic difference.

Be more productive

With the ultimate in worksheet generation technology at your fingertips, the creation of lesson-enhancing support materials for the classroom will be a lot more enjoyable and a lot less work. You can create individual or class sets of professional worksheets quickly and effortlessly saving valuable preparation time and resources.

Producing a worksheet with Vocabulary Worksheet Factory is as simple as selecting a worksheet type and then adding a word list, sentence collection, or text file. The program then takes over and does all the work. It automatically generates a solution for the activity and lays it out on the page so you can see exactly what the printed worksheet will look like.

All of the important settings and design elements are at your finger tips in flexible window panes that can be adjusted to suit your work style. See exactly what your vocabulary activity will look like on the printed page as you design it even when you change paper size, margins, or orientation. You can even work on more than one vocabulary activity at a time with the handy tab page view which allows you to easily switch between worksheets with a click of a mouse. And the zoom feature allows you to get a closer look at the worksheets in progress.

Delight your students with customized worksheets

Generate a basic worksheet and send it to the printer in seconds. But if you want to spend a little extra time, you can customize numerous options to create a very original worksheet to complement a particular lesson theme, grade level, or season. Modify the title group, header, and footer or even remove them entirely. Add a picture, a riddle, a quotation, or some special instructions. Change the font, size, or color of the text on the page. Create multi-page worksheets as easily as single page worksheets. Add an additional header and footer to each page and even add automatic page numbering.

The top five reasons to purchase Vocabulary Worksheet Factory

Thirty worksheet creation programs in one

Select from 30 unique worksheet activities including word shapes, crosswords, word searches, decoding and matching activities, word jumbles, cloze and punctuation exercises, alphabetical order, cryptograms, and more. It's like getting 30 great programs in one. Please see the descriptions and samples of each worksheet activity below:

Crossword Create challenging crossword puzzles with across and down clues from any word list. Add hints and word bank as additional solution aids.

Word Search Generate fun word search activities. Select the directional layout of the words, whether to use just a word bank or add clues, and provide coordinates for easy marking.

Spelling Challenge In a group of similar words only one is spelled correctly and matches the clue that is provided. Write the letter of the correctly spelled word in the space by the question number.

Spelling Hunt Each sentence has a number of words spelled incorrectly. Circle the misspelled words in the sentence, and then write the correct spellings on the line provided below the sentence.

Spelling Quest In each line of text there is one word that has been misspelled. Circle the misspelled word and then write the correct spelling of the word on the adjacent line.

Mixed-Up Text In each paragraph the sentences are out of order. Determine the correct order for the sentences in the paragraph, and write the correct order number for each sentence on the blank space provided.

Word Counts This is a timed reading test. Read out loud as much of the text as you can in one minute. When time is called, mark the spot in the text that you have reached. The number of words read will be calculated.

Alphabetical Order Construct an alphabetical order worksheet in which students must sort a word list into alphabetical order. Select between descending or ascending order.

Decoding Create decoding worksheets that require students to use a decoder to decode the encrypted words. Select from four decoder formats: numerical, alphabetical, letter before, and letter after.

Cloze Generate cloze exercises from any block of text. Hide every 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th word. Add a word bank for extra assistance if desired.

Matching Construct a matching worksheet in which students must match words from the word list to clues or definitions.

Missing Letters Produce worksheet activities that require students to fill in the missing letters in words. Choose between a random number of missing letters, a set number of missing letters, missing consonants, or missing vowels.

Punctuation Create an exercise in punctuation where students must supply the missing punctuation in a block of text. Select which punctuation to remove from the text.

Word Jumbles Generate a word jumbles worksheet in which the letters of each word are scrambled. Choose from randomly scrambled, split words, and backwards.

Word Links Create a word links worksheet where the beginning of each word must be linked up to the end of each word.

Word Shapes Provide practice in identifying the letters shapes in words.

Secret Trails For each question a grid of letters is presented. Locate the word within the grid and draw a line from square to square to link the letters of the word.

Study Sheet Listed below are the spelling words for this week’s test. Use this study sheet to prepare for the spelling test.

Sentence Finishers Only partial sentences are shown below. Create a beginning or an ending for each sentence, and re-write the complete sentence on the lines provided below each sentence.

Short Answer Use the lines below each question to write a short answer.

Missing Letters in Text There are letters missing in the text below. Fill-in the blanks with the letters needed to spell each word correctly.

Lined A worksheet layout that allows for the development of customized activities. Places each word on a separate line that can be used for any number of additional exercises.

Framework Similar to the Crossword activity, students complete the maze by filling in the framework with words based on number of letters and intersections.

Spiral Similar to the Crossword activity, students complete a spiral maze with words derived from clues.

Magic Square Combine math and vocabulary practice with this activity in which students match words with clues to complete a magic square. The columns, rows, and diagonals, will add to the same number with the correct solution.

Multiple Choice A multiple choice activity where the correct word must be selected from a set of four to match the given clue.

Scrambled Sentences Students reconstruct sentences from scrambled sentences.

Missing Words Students fill in the missing word(s) in sentences from a word list.

Hidden Letters Similar to the Missing Letters activity except that multiple variations of each word are given with a different missing letter in each variation.

Letter Patterns Students complete the letter patterns, e.g. BCEFH_

Alphabet Soup Students must supply missing letters and then find words hidden in groups of letters.

Cryptogram Entire blocks of text are encrypted and a decoder provided. The decoder can be made as easy or as difficult as desired.