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The 'Games for Change' collaborative! Social network for people that believe in the power of games. Collaborate with others on games. Even become a beta-tester!

Gr6-12 "If students could develop their school's curriculum this is what it would look like. Find lessons that teach core academic subjects through popular culture including Math, Science, English, History and many more!"

" FIRST is a computer analysis suggesting which English words are likely to be hard to spell. A set of Regular Expressions pick out the hard-to-spell words at any of 20 frequency levels (the 20x1000 family lists as used in VP-BNC). These expressions seek out research-indicated causes of spelling difficulty such as multi-syllables (unreasonableness), double-double consonants (committed), triple vowels (agreeable), classic conundrums (admissible), and others. Go » BNC Spell-conundrums SECOND is a set of complementary builders to create activities that give practice in written word form encoding and retention. 1. Productive The NEW! Dictator builder routine creates TTS-based dictation activities in three unit sizes and two modes (Teach and Test). Requires download (IE/Win only) REQUIRES NOTHING, + WORKS ACROSS BROWSERS (although not equally). SAVES AS URL. 2. Recognition The classic I-Dentify (a.k.a. Jumble or Spew) builder creates screen-at-a-time word recognition activities. Learners identify a word cued by blanked concordance lines from a jumble of random letters, such as 'agsjtylinterestingkshrtywc' (agsjtylinterestingkshrtywc). SAVES ON LEXTUTOR. "