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1. Spelling Spelling -- didn't you dread it in school: the pages and pages full of your words written "ten times each," cramming for a test each Thursday night, and the deadly dull Spelling Bee each year? It doesn't have to be boring! Make spelling fun with gam...
2. 100 Commonly Misspelled Words - Test Your Skills! Are you a good speller? Do you use good grammar? Do you know what an adverb is? An acronym? How many of the Top 100 commonly misspelled words do you misspell most often? See the top 100 list and test your skills. Resource links and funny spelling bee...
3. Word World This is one of the best kids' shows I've seen come out in a long time! It helps kids recognize their letters, sound out words, and spell. It's fun, cute and educational!
4. The Thanksgiving Tale of Tobias Turkey Tobias Turkey is a determined little turkey who wants to win the prize for being the biggest turkey on Farmer Joe's Farm. This Thanksgiving Tale by Sandra Robbins can lead into a unit study of domestic turkeys with poems, crafts, math activities...
5. Old Black Fly Unit Study Old Black Fly's been buzzing around and lands on an alphabet's worth of spilled drips and drops of food. This poem is fun to read aloud with it's lilting rhyme has makes you want to dance. Use Old Black Fly to start a unit on insects that will inspi...
6. Quiz: How to Use the Apostrophe Incorrect apostrophe use honestly drives me nuts. Use of the apostrophe might seem like a little thing to you (and you can share your opinion later in the debate on this page). To me, though, it's very important, and quite frustrating, because so...
7. Unit Studies Headquarters Unit Studies: Fun, Active, and Creative Learning Join our group to share your ideas for making learning fun, active and creative for all. Reading each of the lenses in this group will help each of us discover new ideas and inspire new lenses. Please...
8. Beginning to Read Mrs. Wishy Washy and The Big Bad Pig are inviting you all beginning readers to join them in the adventure of learning to read. Learn how to make Word Walls, Literacy Bags, activities for Center Time and lots, lots, more. You will find suggested begi...
9. Tutorial: Fix the Most Common Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Mistakes QUICK CURES FOR "SPELLING AMNESIA." Nothing shoots your image in the foot faster than typos and spelling mistakes in your public documents. If you have to stop and think about which spelling to use for THEIR, THERE or THEY'RE; ITS vs IT'S;...
10. Tutoring Techniques: Resources for Tutors Are you a remedial math or remedial reading tutor? Are you looking for new techniques or new resources for teaching specific basic skills? Maybe you're a homeschool parent of a special needs child, and you need new ideas for helping your child with s...
11. Ever Wonder What It's Like To Homeschool? A typical homeschool day? I don't think such a thing exists. There are probably almost as many ways to homeschool as their are homeschooling families! This is how it should be too, as are any two kids really the same? They not only have varying l...
12. Commonly Misused Words in the English Language Has anybody ever snapped at you for misusing a word? It's not nice to nitpick, but the truth is, you'll sound awfully funny if you use the wrong word. (I always want to giggle when I see "bare with me...") If you're ever in doubt as to whether you'r...
13. Apostrophe Abuse It really shouldn't matter. And of course It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Why should anyone CARE when apostrophes are misused? After all, just about everyone does it. Abuse apostrophes, I mean. Or should that be "abuse apostrophe's"...
14. Easy English Easy English? Is that an oxymoron? You may think so now, but not after you've spent some time looking through my lens. I love language, grammar and etymology. I read grammar books for fun. Yes, I'm a freak that way. But my freakishness is your gain be...
15. Write Good With Help From William Safire's Fumblerules Years ago, way before I was cornated as a Giant Squid, folks was always trying to illicit my good writing secrets. Heck, what was I suppose to do? Hoard them like a greedy miser in my chester drawers? Anyways, I could care less about there getting be...
16. The worst websites on the web, vote for the most crap site ever! The internet is a wonderful place, but to put free publishing in the hands of the general public is just shocking.  It's not just morons putting up crap homepages or people who are just Super Weird, even big corporate companies make dreadful web...
17. If You Write -- Edit It To Increase Its Effectiveness! The world of writing has changed--maybe not the thinking part, but the tools used to get the words "out there". From pads and pencils (and before that, tablets and stylus), our writing has progressed through typewriters and then r...
18. Grammar Refresher For Mommy As a mom I know how hard it is to keep up with the kids and the rest of the world. Sometimes we become so wrapped up in the kids we forget how to speak with adults. The less we practice the more difficult it becomes. This lens is here to help me catc...
19. Scrabble Apple Word Building Game Scrabble Apple is the newest Scrabble games to come out. A variation on the traditional Scrabble Games, Scrabble Apple contains 100 letters and is stored in a bright red, zippered apple. Scrabble Apple is a fast-paced vocabulary building games that...
20. Eating Alpha-Bits Letters Alpha-Bits Have been teaching Kids to read for years. I remember the first time I heard of them in the early 1960's and how much fun it was to make words in my cereal. Then the other day my 13 year old asked for cereal with letters. Oh, you mean, Al...