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dialect quiz to see how you match up

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IXL has a whopping 2,000 math-practice modules that meet nearly all the Common Core math standards. You'll find Pre-K games covering the fundamentals through high school lessons and learning activities on geometry, how to graph equations, or the Pythagorean theorem, for example.

A visual online thesaurus

"Miss Muffet's Christmas Party", written in 1902 by Samual McChord Crothers

Free book publishing for students printed and emailed

exploring games and information that connect to almost any child.

a different way to look up words and common connections with images. It is all web based. Good for building vocabulary from a work of writing.

A great example of edgar Allan Poes, the tell tale heart on glogster

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