Elementary Education Resources: Language Arts: Spelling and Vocabulary
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Miscellaneous Resources
A Word a Day
Alphabet Game--spelling game to help children make sense of letters
Audiblox--develops a variety of learning skills, including concentration, perception, memory and logical thinking; effective in addressing difficulties in reading, spelling and writing. It is effective for dyslexia, dysgraphia and other learning difficulties
Common Errors in English
Confusing Words--a collection of
3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped
according to the way they are most often confused or misused. Some of
these words are homonyms, and some are just commonly confused.
Elements of Style
Food Dictionary--Search this dictionary by Epicurious.com with more than 4,000 food terms and you'll never have to eat your words. Just type the word or phrase you're looking for in the box above and select the "Find" button. If you're unsure of a term's correct spelling, just type in the first few letters.
FreeMan--a word learning game
Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary--word games,
exercises and activities
Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
Ideas for Spelling Activities
Jesse's Word of the Day
Lexical FreeNet--search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator
More Spelling Activities
Little Explorers--a child's dictionary linked to external web resources
Rhyming Dictionary
Roots of English: An Etymological Dictionary
Sparkle--spelling game for grades 1-5
SpellingCity - It's fun, free, useful,
unique. And, most of the best features are yet to come
Spell Check -interactive game that allows students to correct spelling errors
Spelling It Right--Learn to Spell Confidently
Spelling Practice-Yawn!--activities that reinforce written words and spelling skills
Spelling Resources
SpellWeb--if you aren't sure which spelling of a word is correct, let SpellWeb decide
TheVisualThesaurus--amazing online thesaurus that will intrigue and amuse and engage while extending your word power.
Check it out!
Web page to help kids (K-3rd grade) find letters of the alphabet on the internet
Wild world of word challenges
WWWebster Dictionary
YourDictionary.com--language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with
more than 250 languages.
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