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This article instructs how to write a position essay providing cool tips and an outline.

pros: free and a positive review from a sixth grader, has free teacher's section that can use to setup "classroom environment" (but haven't tried) con: advertisements on sides of pages

Practice keyboarding online in 16 languages. Free and teacher's can setup a classroom, but I haven't tried. Sixth grader gave site a positive review. Con: advertisements on sides (but interesting viewing how ads change depending on language selection).

list of resources, ideas, hints, tips, and tricks on how to positively affect your classroom with the use of Twitter.

spreadsheet listing educators names, positions, contact info., and "Specific Links, Resources, Webinars Learned Through Twitter"

Gleaned from the Resources for Languages Diigo group

"Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an after-school program demonstrated improved attitudes about reading, according to researchers at Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction at Tufts University. Their research appears online in advance of print in the Early Childhood Education Journal. Reading skills are often associated with improved academic performance and positive attitudes about school in children. Researchers wanted to learn if animal-assisted intervention in the form of reading aloud to dogs in a classroom setting could contribute to improved skills and attitudes."

A reaction essay is an essay that is written in response to something else. The initial topic that the writer is responding to could be anything from a speech that was heard to another essay to the latest breaking news event.

"For a considerable time already there has been discussion within scientific circles about whether knowing and using multiple languages could possibly have positive effects on the human brain and thinking. There have been a number of international studies on the subject, which indicate that the ability to use more than one language brings an individual a considerable advantage."

This here is a word cloud. >> It's an attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others.

"A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing."