The Knowsys Vocabulary Builder Program is designed to help students improve their vocabulary and, through vocabulary acquisition, their reading and writing skills.

  A systematic approach to vocabulary acquisition and mastery is important. Research shows that a student’s vocabulary—both the quantity and level—are directly related to the student’s reading comprehension skills and writing skills. In most schools, vocabulary is addressed indirectly as part of a reading program. The idea is that students will “pick up” their vocabulary while reading. Such a passive approach to vocabulary mastery has proven inadequate, however.

The Knowsys Vocabulary Builder Program provides students with a tool for learning vocabulary systematically and intentionally.

The Vocabulary Builder program includes Flashcards for grades 6 through 12. Each level contains 300 Flashcards on grade level.

The Grade 11-SAT words are Flashcards specific to the SAT. There are 555 SAT Flashcards in the 11th grade set. These words are taken from released SAT exams and are based on the number of times the terms appeared on the SAT.

In the Online Flashcards program, the terms are sub-divided into groups. The words are also categorized into sub-groups, like praise words (e.g., eulogy, laud, encomium, and extol) and criticize words (e.g., berate, repudiate, reprove, and denunciate). Each word includes an audio pronunciation of each term so students can hear the words and learn to pronounce them correctly.

The Online Flashcards program tracks the student's progress using the unique Knowsys Memory Box System. Students can elect to drill and quiz themselves on all the words in select groups or they can hone in on words that are "not-memorized", in "short-term memory", or in "long-term memory." With the ability to drill targeted words, students can optimize their study time.