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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. 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 and...
4. 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...
5. 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;...
6. 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!
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. Beep, Beep Goes the Bus One of the most popular themes for preschoolers is transportation. Listen to the sound of a bus going beep, beep, beep. Hear the roar of the bus as it pulls up to the bus stop. Notice the hiss of the air coming from the brakes. With their bright col...
9. 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...
10. 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...
11. 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...
12. 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...
13. 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...
14. 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...
15. My Home School Journal This journal has multiple purposes. The first and most obvious is to keep track of the learning progress of my 5/6-year-old. Second, to provide helpful home schooling resources. Third, to inspire and encourage myself as well as my fellow home school...
16. Transportation Unit Study Young children are always on the go so it only follows that some of their favorite toys are cars, boats, planes and trains. This transportation theme can wheel us along with games, math activities and science projects that keep your child busily lear...
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. There, Their, They're Before your eyes roll back in your head, there's a very simple way to learn when and how to use the three "there words": there, their, they're. People are expected to know the proper use of these most popular homonyms/homophones. When used incorrectl...
19. 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...
20. WhiteSmoke 2009 - Grammar, Spelling and Style Checker WhiteSmoke 2009 is an innovative proofreading and editing tool with a single aim - to help you write better. Whether you simply want to compose well-written emails to family and friends, or you need professional results for business and corporate set...