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Pre-Grade Your Paper: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More "PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing. PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today."

Create comic strips, funny pages, cartoons. Educational Uses -Reports -Foreign language -ESL and ELL -Reviews -Writing and peer-editing

"Boost your vocabulary. See words in the context of real sentences. Learn by association and by definition."

VerbaLearn, Repeat After US, eSchool News on National Writing Project

"It's a drill-the-skills sort of site with a twist: students practice math and spelling skills by competing with other players that can be anywhere in the world. So, in essence, you also have the potential for some social studies." (Source: Laura Smith's Blog)

"DogEared is a blog ALL about books. Good books, funny books, adventure books. Books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places... Books about, well, almost EVERYTHING!!"

A democratic 'visual dictionary'. A place where anyone with a video, webcam or mobile phone can define the words that matter to them in their life.

Convert text to audio for playback.

Free text to speech voices. --Alternative methods to process written information. --Can be used to assist non-readers/struggling readers. --Helpful in ESL/EFL classrooms

This website provides numerous interactive lessons and resources for math, science, language, history and the arts.

A reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. Focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities. "Behind the Lesson" provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch the 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

Practice English and math skills with factsheets, worksheets, quizes, games (some can be played on a Wii)

"LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances...Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free."