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Anne Cunningham's excellent and readable review of the impact of independent reading by children and reading aloud with children on vocabulary growth. Benefits accrue regardless of reading or cognitive ability when children are provided materials they can read with understanding.

This little girl has a great deal of difficulty with word identification. She is doing repeated reading of easy text to increase her sight word vocabulary, general fluency, and expression.

Analyzes text, does word count, keyword and key phrase frequency, and a variety of other analyses. Useful tool for writers and writing teachers. Could use to guide revision of discussion of revision.

Lists and other word resources at Spelling City website. Heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently. e.g., I am content with my blog content.

Hiebert's thoughtful and practical website of information about text difficulty with classroom resources.