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Vocab development site

Very cool test from Swedish Armed Forces testing multi-tasking, spatial thinking, memory, concentration

Tips and tools to teaching writing and achieve writing success

Interactive punctuation lesson

Facscinating and useful comparison of British, Canadian, & American spellings of common and uncommon words.

Fine Arts, Health, History/Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Science,

Audio spelling quizzes (with pictures) for vocab categories and phonics families or create your own list.

Thirty-Eight Interesting Ways (and tips) to use Wordle in the Classroom

This really is a nice list of sites that is applicable to any subject you teach.

"We collected over 50 useful and practical tools and resources that will help you to improve your writing skills. You will find copywriting blogs, dictionaries, references, teaching classes, articles, tools as well as related articles from other blogs."

Not for US students, but a great lesson idea nontheless--with great examples

Lots of good tools for literacy

Visuwords uses a web design to show users the definitions of words and the connections between words. To use Visuwords just type a word into the search box and Visuwords will generate a web of related words. Place your cursor over any of the words and the definition appears. Use the color-coded key to understand the connections between the words in any web. Below is the web based on the word "geography."

You can use this tool to type phonemic symbols to be inserted in a word processor. You can also use it to produce the code needed to insert phonemic symbols in a web page.