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Automated tool for creating your own cloze tests: Thanks to EnglishCentral for pointing it out in Teacher Tips for Making a Transcript.

Nick Peachey blogs: "It enables you to quickly and easily create your own Word Search Puzzles and embed them into your blog. (To mark answers) Just click on the first and last letters of the words when you find them. He warns us: "I would prefer to be able to produce Word Searches that don't have the words included so that students have to think a little more around the topic and mentally revise their existing vocabulary on the topic. " I agree 100%

When you are struggling with academic writing, your professors try to motivate you with completely useless advice: practice, research, improve your vocabulary and you'll do just fine. Their intentions are good, but that "strategy" never works in practice.

It includes games and a lot of tools. Suggested by Gladys

February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114

A Puzzle generator.

Just put in a URL and this will generate a cloud based on word frequency

I found this tool via Bamboo Project Blog this morning. It is really fun to put in the URL of your own blog and see what words you use most often.