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Offers several online games--word sort, complete the sentence, and proofreading--connecting spelling to reading, writing, and thinking skills.

The targeted audience of this website are teachers and intermediate and advanced ESL students. This rich website has a variety of resources for writing students, covering the following topics (to name a few): - General writing process - Grammar, punctuation, and spelling - Rhetoric - ESL resources - Business writing and resume - Subject specific writing - Creative writing - Research, citation, and documentation FROM Lena Shvidko The grand-daddy of all OWLs -- extremely comprehensive, both for composition and writing, and grammar, email etiquette, proofreading, etc., and includes advice for ESL/EFL writers.

"The list of cutely, cleverly and sometimes oddly spelled Web 2.0 apps for learning continues to grow, making it easier but also more confusing to find online tools to help you learn and excel as a student." - Many of these are not Web 2.0, but simply online productivity tools, but it's good to find some new ones.

"Dyslexia is a learning difficulty which affects the ability to adopt the automatic reflexes needed to read and write. Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems encountered by individuals with dyslexia when they read. Little attention, however, has been paid to the mechanisms involved in writing. Sonia Kandel, Professor at the GIPSA-Lab of the Université Grenoble Alpes (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes/Grenoble INP) and her team [1] decided to look at the purely motor aspects of writing in children diagnosed with dyslexia. Their results show that orthographic processing in children with dyslexia is so laborious that it can modify or impair writing skills, despite the absence of dysgraphia in these children. The findings of this study are published in the November 2017 edition of Cognitive Neuropsychology." A serious problem that can influence aspects of language learning.

"Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff" Looks like this would be fun, and templates for each type of activity are included -- flashcards, trivia game, spelling words, MadLibs, random picker, badges, progress chart, certificate.

This looks like a fascinating game system that includes physics (Newton), drawing (Masterpiece), increasingly difficult puzzles (Tangram), and words and numbers for game practice. It uses both physical and digital elements -- e.g., drawing on paper, and moving letters and numbers around. I haven't had a chance to try it out, but it's one of "TIME's [popular news magazine] best inventions of 2014." The only catch is the $99 to buy the app. You will then need to spend a little more for some of the apps. For 9+.