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Make a Crossword Puzzle. ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids.

Make a Crossword Puzzle

The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Apple, The New York Times, USA Today, Parents Magazine and Scholastic, to name just a few, have featured ABCya’s popular educational games. ABCya’s award-winning Preschool computer games and apps are conceived and realized under the direction of a certified technology education teacher, and have been trusted by parents and teachers for ten years.

Crossword Puzzle Maker. You must have an OLD browser. The old crossword maker doesn't allow all of the new features like cool fonts, adding images, shadows, special colors, and much more coming in the furture like saving, and being playable online. You can upgrade your browser to IE 9+ or better yet, get the Google Chrome browser and enjoy all of those great features. Not convinced? You can go to the old version by clicking choosing it below. 2 reasons crosswords will not generate: 1. 1. Take the following example word list: "home, cat, dog". A slightly different impossible list: "home", "dog", "lizard" - all 3 have letters that they share!

When you add a bunch of words, the chance for it being an impossible can increase (depending on many factors). Create Free, Online Crossword Puzzles. Worksheet Makers, Word Search Generator, Custom Handwriting Sheets, Crossword Puzzles. Free eBooks And Audiobooks To Read Online Or Download. WordItOut - Generate word clouds (and make custom gifts)

30 Ideas for Teaching Writing. Summary: Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help—which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials.

30 Ideas for Teaching Writing

The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced Writing Project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications (a link to the full article accompanies each idea below). Table of Contents: 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing. Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. Though the connection between reading and writing seems to be a "given," reading was not always a dominant force in writing classrooms.

Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

In the nineteenth century, students did not typically write analyses of what they read, but instead wrote themes on prescribed topics, such as Vanity, Democracy, Ethics, and so on. Reading and writing became curricularly linked at the turn of the century, when Harvard and other universities decided that reading literature was essential to learning to write. The reasons for this curricular link are the same today as they were one hundred years ago. Five Ideas for Connecting Reading and Writing in the ESL Classroom. By Sylvia G.

Five Ideas for Connecting Reading and Writing in the ESL Classroom

Ramirez There has been a great deal of research around the value of integrating reading and writing skills. Morning Messages, Phonics and Sight Words. 25 Activities for Reading and Writing Fun. These activities have been developed by national reading experts for you to use with children, ages birth to Grade 6.

25 Activities for Reading and Writing Fun

The activities are meant to be used in addition to reading with children every day. In using these activities, your main goal will be to develop great enthusiasm in the reader for reading and writing. You are the child's cheerleader. It is less important for the reader to get every word exactly right. It is more important for the child to learn to love reading itself. Activities for birth to preschool: The early years Activity 1: Books and babies Babies love to listen to the human voice.

What you'll need: Some books written especially for babies (books made of cardboard or cloth with flaps to lift and holes to peek through). What to do: BoomWriter - Schools. BoomWriter lets you easily incorporate and experience the benefits of technology as your students are engaged in the following (or similar) standards-based learning activities: Grade 3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

BoomWriter - Schools

Using BoomWriter’s feature allowing teachers to create their own story start, students collaboratively create imagined multi-paragraph personal narratives using a teacher generated prompt (e.g. “When I woke up on Saturday morning, I had no idea I was in for the craziest day of my entire life…”). Grade 5 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Digital Storytelling Activities - Richard Byrne. Video-base Activities -Beginner Activity: 1.

Digital Storytelling Activities - Richard Byrne

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9 Web 2.0 Sites to Publish Student Work

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