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=Jeopardy! for Vocabulary=

Powerpoint Games for Units 13-26

Jeopardy Labs Internet for Units 10-12

=Writing Resources=

Life Hacker's 50 Writing Tools

Interactive Compare & Contrast

Essay Punch Click "Try the demo"

Graphic Organizers (thinking maps)

Daily Writing Tips = = = = = = =Grammar Practice=

Grammar Ninja

TC JE TH RN MP JZ

Demo

= **Reading - Finding GREAT Books** =

** American Library Association (Find all medal winners) **

** Literature Map (Find book recommendations based on one you know you like) **

Library of Congress (Read hundreds of thousands of books online)

**Making Movies**

Photo Peach (slideshows with captions)

XtraNormal (3D movie maker)

Animoto (bring your own pictures!)
 * Tutorial

Go Animate (movies, cartoons)

=Cartoons=

Toon Doo (create cartoons in many formats)

BeFunky (photo editing)

CoolText (to make buttons or fancy words)
 * Tutorial

=Audio=

Text to Speech (it will read anything you type)

Gabcast (free podcasting from a phone)

=Documents=

Google Docs (create papers, powerpoint slides, excel spreadsheets, forms, etc.)
 * Tutorial

Wordle (create a picture of words for a theme)

[|PicLits] (inspired picture writing; drag-n-drop)