ONLINE TOOLS

Access the wide range of online tools for each book by clicking on the links below.

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Learn more about In Focus’s wide range of online tools designed to enhance student’s language learning.

NGSL Learning Dictionary

This is probably the most important and most powerful of our learning tools, providing learners with instant access to useful information for all of the words from all of our lists including pronunciation, part of speech, definitions from 6 different dictionaries and pronunciation help in multiple accents. The NGSL Learning Dictionary also powers many of our learning tools including the NGSL Placement Test, Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches and instant access to the Youglish video concordance.

NGSL Learning Dictionary
NAWL Learning Dictionary

NGSL Word Searches

Generated randomly from NGSL words and found from the Puzzle pulldown menu in our NGSL Project Learning Dictionary, students must try to find the key words in the puzzle as quickly as they can.

This helps with recognizing each word as a string of letters and helps develop automaticity, a foundational part of word knowledge.

NGSL Crosswords

Generated randomly from NGSL words and found from Puzzle pulldown menu in our NGSL Project Learning Dictionary, this activity strengthens the connection of to meaning.

NGSL Quizlet Stacks

We have created word stacks by frequency for our NGSL and NAWL wordlists so that students can still use Quizlet to study the words they need to learn.

Access the complete collection here.

You can also access them in stacks of 10 (one stack for each unit) via the 3 book links at the top of this page.

NGSL Video Concordance

Although Youglish is designed and marketed as a tool to improve pronunciation, we believe it is equally powerful and useful as a video concordance, giving students and teachers instant access to each NGSL word being used in hundreds of authentic contexts.

To access this function simply go to the NGSL Learning Dictionary or the NAWL Learning Dictionary and then click on the word you are interested in studying. The html link takes you directly to the Youglish site for that word.