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Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Pygmalion: Etext

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to access an online version of Shaw's famous play, based on the classical myth.
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Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies

Famsi: Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs

For Students 9th - 10th
John Montgomery's Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs is a unique reference to the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Maya that presents over 1,200 hieroglyphs or glyph compounds. Each entry includes the hieroglyph, phonetic transcription,...
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the five-act play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It includes a preface by a professor of phonetics and a sequel "What Happens Next."
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
Interactive
Free Reading

Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the learners learn to sound out the words.
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Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: La Pronunciacion

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic site for learning the basics of Spanish pronunciation. The audio clips are great for contrasting Spanish and English sounds.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Spelling Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Select a Dolch word list and listen to the word the dragon speaks. Click and drag the letters to spell the word correctly. Press 'hint" to see how the word is spelled or press "skip" to go to another word.
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University of Texas at Austin

Francais Interactif: Interactive French

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic, comprehensive site organized into 13 chapters. Each chapter contains vocabulary, grammar, video clips with interviews and dialogues, written exercises linking to French magazines and periodicals. Also pertinent cultural...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Word Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the...
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Astronomia Visible

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has maps of the nearest stars and constellations. Earth and star daily rotation, proper motion of the stars and many other topics about the solar system are also shown.Read phonetically
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Other

Dance.net: Jazz Terminology

For Students 9th - 10th
Short list of jazz steps with definitions and phonetic pronunciation guide for each.
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BBC

Bbc: Voices: Schools: Speech Styles and Standard English [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Some activities to do with students to help them understand about dialects and accents. Presents a poem written phonetically with a Londoner's accent, two more poems with lesson ideas, and a story with some non-standard English words...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of Iran

For Students 9th - 10th
Until mass emigration began in 1948, Jews constituted one of the largest and longest-settled non-Muslim populations in Iran. Dispersed in every city and town in the country, Iranian Jews were almost always a minority except in a few...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
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Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
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Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

Roble: Ortografia

For Students 9th - 10th
You will have a chance to practice your spelling with these drills and exercises. They include capitalization, accents, punctuation and many other fundamentals rules of spelling.
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Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

Cnice: Ejercicios De Ortografia

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice spelling Spanish words -- particularly letters with tricky sounds (v,b; y,ll; etc.). Click the corresponding letter on the keyboard to launch an activity -- then try to correctly spell 15-20 words. You can check your answers...
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Language Guide

Language Guide: El Alfabeto

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice correct pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet along with Spanish vocabulary words that include those letters. Audio files load very quickly and play as you point your mouse over each letter or word.
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Primary Games

Primary Games: Word Candy

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this game students make as many words as they can from the letters provided to earn candy.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Combination Activities Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Great small group and whole class lessons on introducing, reintroducing, building fluency, and building accuracy for letter combinations.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...

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