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If you're going to use a document over and over again, it makes sense to turn that document into a template. A template in word processing terms is a document with some settings already in place.

Texthelp's HELP regarding Word Prediction within the Read & Write Gold toolbar

WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. WAY COOL

"The goal is to create as many words as you can using the ten letters that are generated in the box below. Just scribble down the words on a piece of paper as fast as you can think of them."

A template is a document type that creates a copy of itself when you open it. You can create a template saving a document as a .dotx file, .dot file, or a .dotm file (a .dotm file type allows you to enable macros in the file).

"10 Word Cloud Generators You Have Probably Never Tried"

Tutorial/cheat sheet on using the Sound Recorder / Voice Comment feature in MS Word 2007 to insert voice recordings within the document. Great tool for students and teachers!

Tutorial/cheat sheet on creating electronic forms in MS Word 2007. Great tool for students to access worksheets and quizzes using a computer.

Learn these shortcuts for MS Word 2010 to help with accessibility and increase speed!

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Learn to use features of Word 2013. from FDLRS

The Pinterest board showcasing all of the visual definitions used in the Lighting The Way With Words series.

How to add a word to the LAMP:WFL app

Pictures of vocabulary words

Each week Night Light Stories does a blog post featuring a visual representation of a word. These posts are done in alphabetical order and help students learn vocabulary.

Write the sight word on a whiteboard or make it with magnetic letters. ... Talk about tall and short letters in the word (e.g. "and" has two short letters .... Have students close their eyes and visualize the word. ...

In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. As part of the online tool, students brain

Step by step tutorial/cheat sheet on creating a virtual manipulative item bank in MS Word

Video explaining core words