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As a parent who likes to follow the news of successful home schooling students, you’ve probably heard about the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and how homeschoolers like 2007 champion, Evan O’Dorney, continue to surprise the public by winning! But you probably haven’t heard about a new scholarship opportunity for homeschoolers: the Princeton Review National Vocabulary Championship.

The Game Show Network and the Princeton Review teamed up last year to host the 1st annual national vocabulary championship.  Here are the modules to get you started improving your vocabulary:

1. Mnemonic Madness

2. Compliment or Criticism?

3. What’s the Link?

4. Using Context

5. Using Context, part 2

6. Dictionaries, Etymologies, and Thessauri…Oh My!

7. Vocabulary Journaling

8. Secondary Meanings

9. The Perfect Roommate

10. Analogies

Each ~20 page module begins with a lesson, then a couple of independent activities to reinforce the teaching, a quiz, and flashcards to help them retain the vocabulary words that they studied! The modules are all in adobe pdf format which means you can save them to your computer for later use (think siblings!) or print them out now for your high school student. Additionally, there are 5 documents which list the 250 most frequently tested SAT vocabulary words.

Princeton Review Hit Parade 1

Princeton Review Hit Parade 2

Princeton Review Hit Parade 3

Princeton Review Hit Parade 4

Princeton Review Hit Parade 5

Now, I don’t know about you, but even if you do not want to have your teen take the National Vocabulary Qualifying Exam before the end of November, you will agree with me that the free study aids are invaluable and could really supplement your home school English curriculum! As I mentioned, the exam is ONLY given in November which means you only have about 2 weeks left to take it (sorry, i just learned about it this week). One of the things that I love about homeschooling is the flexibility…in fact, I’ve decided to put the 10 vocabulary modules and the SAT Vocabulary Hit Parade lists on the schedule next week for both Meredith and Connor, then they can take the online National Vocabulary Qualifying Exam the week of November 26, 2007. I look forward to hearing the announcement on the national news next spring that your home school teen has won a big college scholarship!