Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
keybr.com lets you test your speed and accuracy on the keyboard. I’m such a slow reader it kills my speed which is much better when I’m simply writing without the reading, like now. [via kottke.org]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Free Rice is a vocabulary game. For each word you get right they’ll donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. Dang, where the heck do they find all these words?! [via Amy Mindell]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 25th, 2007 No Comments »
LibriVox: acoustical liberation of books in the public domain. The subhead says it all. Great. [via Heather Dunbar]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 20th, 2006 3 Comments »
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Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 13th, 2005 No Comments »
With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands: “The International Phonetic Association is amending its official alphabet for the first time in 12 years.” (Via NYT > Science.)
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Language is a Virus is a wonderful collection of linguistic tools for having fun with letters, words, and sentences as well as technique. Lots of good reading on the history of writing technique as well as words of wisdom from great writers.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Mar 3rd, 2005 2 Comments »
Flocabulary is a vocabulary building site that embeds new vocabulary words in rap lyrics and allows you to stream or download them to listen (study). The site is crude but it’s getting some attention and there is undoubtedly research somewhere on putting new vocabulary into lyrical form to help it “stick” better. Not sure rap [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 28th, 2005 1 Comment »
© Jaena L.H. Smith jlhsmith@aol.com The following techniques were developed to get the best results in creating young writers in a resource room instruction setting. These techniques were developed and refined over a period of nine years while I was an elementary resource teacher in a small school district. They are for students who have [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 28th, 2005 10 Comments »
The New York Times ran a story on gender and hemispheric differences between people who can more easily solve math problems and those who can’t. Mental Abilities: Peering Into a Math Whiz’s Brain In short, people who are good at solving math problems use more of their brains than not: both hemispheres are lighting up [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 27th, 2005 3 Comments »
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