Greetings! Welcome to my web. And speaking of webs, I think one of the best things we can do for students who strive to make sense of the English language is to help them construct webs with words. Research has revealed that language may be more easily processed or activated through networks of related words, including words that contain the same root, such as student, students, study, and studious (see Nagy, Anderson, Schommer, Scott, & Stallman, 1989). As a doctoral student, I seek ways to help all learners gain and retain new vocabulary. Like Nagy (2007), I believe teaching word consciousness and word structure should be "obligatory, not optional" in every classroom and that once we have created sensitivity to language, we have primed the pump for accelerated vocabulary development (Graves, 2000, 2002).

Try this web: The Spider and the Fly--a rich source of  related vocabulary.