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Effective vocabulary instruction requires active and positive student participation. In addition, familiarity with high-frequency affixes and roots promotes comprehension of numerous words in which they occur as meaningful chunks. In this online activity, students flip two chips to mix and match four word parts and make four words. Students then insert the four words into a paragraph, using context clues to determine where each word belongs. After each exercise, students can print their work to check whether they placed the four words in the paragraph correctly.

Fifteen short mini-comics provide the engaging framework for illustrating the meanings of words and word parts in context for students in grades five and up. And research shows that these high-interest visual narratives are especially motivating for ELL and reluctant readers in all grades, too.

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CloudOn is a "free for a limited time" app that allows you to create, edit, and view Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files on your iPad. CloudOn pulls the files from your Dropbox account, and also automatically saves them there, so you must have a Dropbox account to use CloudOn

Simply stated, it's network etiquette -- that is, the etiquette of cyberspace. And "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." In other words, Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online.

User must tilt the iPad to collect all the letters in a simple word.

Wordventure is just like the word game we all played as kids! You can pick from many story templates, then choose Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Types of Food, Mythical Animals, etc, etc, etc and then fall on the floor laughing at the hilarious story you've just created! Wordventure is fun for kids as well as adults and can be played alone or with friends! Your kids might even learn a thing or two about parts of speech while they are having fun!

Facebook has added an incredible complexity to our lives and relationships for one simple reason: it is in writing. The courts have always put things "in writing" in higher esteem above word of mouth. Now that we are inundated with video, text, and photographs and a set of complex relationships - we end up with things "in writing" that are distributed far beyond our true "friends" into  places that get us in trouble.