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Pc world.com: Word Processing Tips
PCWorld offers an extensive article by George Campbell on word processor tips, mainly pertaining to transferring your Word preferences to other PC's.
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English French Online Dictionary
Travelang's French-English dictionary consists of 10,000 terms--definitions are given with examples and idiomatic expressions.
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Fast Food Fun
Use your knowledge of spreadsheets to analyze the calories and fat content of fast food choices. This project gives links to a USDA site and a final report format. A sample spreadsheet and grading rubric is also provided.
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Knoword
Knoword is a word game that puts players' English vocabularies to the test. When a student starts a new game, they get a definition, the first letter of the word it's referring to, and one minute to solve the problem.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word
A great resource for teachers introducing the concepts of "letters" and "words" to early elementary students. Uses the names of the students themselves as a starting place in learning these concepts. Great site.
Computer Hope
Computer Hope: Tips Relating to Microsoft Word
A listing of various tips that can be used with Microsoft Word. Find out ways to work better and more efficiently with this word processing program.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to find the meaning of words through analogy and other word relationships. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure
Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Augustine's Idea of God
Author quotes a passage from Augustine on the nature of God and uses it as a starting place to discuss the difference between Christian and Greek conceptions of divinity.
University College London
University College London: Adjectives and Nouns
Tutorial site that surveys the proper usage of adjectives and nouns that act like adjectives. Includes examples and an exercise.
English Club
English Club: Abbreviations
This EnglishClub tutorial for abbreviations for the four main types of abbreviations and the ways to punctuate each.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Pre Algebra Problem Solving
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains manipulatives for creating addition and subtraction problems using positive and negative numbers. There is an example problem which teachers can use to help design their own...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Word Classes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews adverbs and prepositions and how they will change sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Word Problem Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart works with word problems and strategies to solve them. There are a number of problems to practice solving.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Build a Word
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the Activboard and Activprimary, students assemble words by arranging various letters on the flipchart page. Students create words given pre-assembled word endings or listen to words delivered by...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Decimals
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction to decimals: standard, word, expanded forms, comparing and ordering.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words
Create words using prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Group the words together as words are created and add them to the word bank. Add your own prefixes, suffixes, and root words to extend the activity.