Events surrounding the National Storytelling Festival include the "Stories Work" workshop series, the "National Story Night" annual benefit concert to support the NSN Grants Program, and the Storytelling Festival, produced by the International Storytelling Center.
In this competition, created by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation, high school students memorize and recite the work of great poets. This competition helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence and learn about their literary heritage while competing at the classroom level, then moving on through school-wide, city-wide and regional competitions. Each state-level winner receives $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington (with a chaperone) to compete for the national championship. The state winner's school receives a $500 stipend for the purchase of poetry books. Finalists compete at the National Finals in May, where scholarships and school stipends totaling $50,000 are awarded.
The Davidson Fellows scholarship program recognizes outstanding achievements of profoundly gifted young people who have developed their talents by contributing a significant piece of work in one of these submission areas: Mathematics, Science, Technology, Music, Literature, Philosophy or Outside the Box. For eligibility and deadline information, please visit the Davidson Fellows website.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a writing event that happens every November where the challenge is to complete an entire novel in just 30 days. Participants begin writing November 1 and finish by November 30. The Young Writers Program (YWP) allows 17-and-under participants to set reasonable, yet challenging, individual word-count goals.
CARLA offers lessons and classroom tasks for teachers of French, German and Spanish. A virtual assessment center helps teachers develop proficiency-oriented instruction and performance measures. Their database tells where (in North America) students may study less commonly taught languages.
This organization provides teenagers a communication outlet for addressing important issues in their lives. It helps them develop their reading, writing, thinking, and reflection skills by: training teens in journalism, publishing a number of teen-written publications and providing a public forum. There are a number of resources for educators related to reading and writing, and many of the articles are gifted-related.
Youth Speaks is one of the top youth poetry, spoken word and creative writing programs in the country. It provides teens an excellent opportunity to share and compare their writing; some of their events include poetry slams, festivals and reading slams. Other features include a free after-school workshop, press resources, and a merchandise section. An underlying mission of Youth Speaks is to give teens the tools they need to apply their voices in creating social change.
The Bob Books are tiny sets of 4" x 5" books, perfect for little fingers. The series builds early reading skills incrementally starting with the beginning phonics sounds and uses a logical, structured method that has children reading right away. Part of the draw of these books is that young children can say they read the "whole book," thus increasing confidence. Clever and engaging black and white line illustrations are used (a child might even enjoy coloring them). The clever and humorous drawings help maintain attention.
Richard Lederer, the Verbivore, is the author of more than 30 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series. Dr. Lederer's syndicated column, "Looking at Language," appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel winner.
This workbook contains activities in verbal and figural similarities, and differences, sequences, classifications, and analogies. Skills addressed include reading comprehension; describing shapes, things, and words; following directions; antonyms and synonyms; several types of analogy; deductive reasoning; parts of a whole; mapping and directionality; logical connectives; spelling and vocabulary; overlapping classes; pattern folding; tracking, rotation, and reflection; mental manipulation of two-dimensional objects.
This book is part of the "Challenging Units for Gifted Students" series designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. This book includes units that ask students to develop strong personalities for their main characters while writing mysteries, to study Freud's psychoanalytic theory and then analyze a classic novel using what they've learned, to focus on writing from a specific point of view, and to increase their appreciation for poetry by studying famous poets.
This book focuses on encrypting and deciphering texts and includes several methods of cryptography, such as transcription, substitution, transposition, and lots more. Historical events are included for these purposes along with codes that were really used.
This is a workbook to improve writing and communication skills. Builds skills in descriptive vocabulary, directionality, compare and contrast, classification, organization, similarities and differences.
Written by Joan D'Amico and Kate Gallaway, this book offers teachers strategies on how to design and deliver instruction, measure success and get students to work together. Features ready to use language arts activitites that are tied to core curriculum standards.
Jeffrey Wilhelm helps educators implement inquiry in the classroom with this book which leads teachers in using research-based techniques to meet mandated content-area standards while engaging students in productive, meaningful learning experiences.
By Joegil K. Lundquist, the English from the Roots Up book series explores a simple, multi-sensory teaching system for the etymologies of the English language, focusing on Greek and Latin roots. Much of the program uses colored, bordered cards, which may either be made by the student or teacher, or purchased separately for use with the program. All teaching tips are included for instruction in 63 Latin root words and 37 Greek root words. The word roots can be mixed and matched to make new words.
This workbook is great for homeschoolers. It helps students master the Latin and Greek roots by providing sequenced activities, practice sets and reviews. A separate response key is also provided. It has over 275 word bases, including the variations. For example, FAC (FIC), FACT (FECT) (FY) all mean "to do, to make." Each lesson has five sections: "Touching Base", "Branching Out", "Words in Progress", "Words in Action" and "Word of Interest". After every 3 lessons, there are review activities and practice sets. There is also a list of Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes in the back of the workbook.
Written by Anne Zeman and Kate Kelly, this book series includes titles such as Everything You Need To Know about American History; about World History; about Geography; about Math Homework; about English; and many more.
This textbook discusses the three major questions: why we read, what we read, and how we interpret. The author lays out the major debates currently taking place within English departments and selections including: new historicism, feminism and gender studies, reader-response criticism, ethical criticism, and postcolonial and cultural studies.
The three volumes of the Five in a Row curriculum provide 55 lesson plans covering social studies, language, art, applied math and science. Designed for a homeschool setting, these lessons would also be appropriate in a conventional school. Although the original Five in a Row was designed for children ages 4 to 8, families of profoundly gifted children will find these guides more appropriate for the preschool years. The accompanying Five in a Row website offers sample lessons, an online newsletter, and curriculum user discussion boards.
Designed by an educator who has taught grammar and writing from middle school through the first year of college, this workbook emphasizes practice. It contains six separate topics: parts of speech, sentence structure, word usage, case, agreement, and style. Each page presents a brief lesson followed by related exercises. It has been widely field-tested as practical and effective.
This book by Majorie Frank is a resource writing book for teachers, or homeschool parents, etc. who are trying to teach children how to write. It contains activities to inspire young writers to write, revise and edit. There are many ideas on assessing student growth.
Make grammar fun by using this book from Brad Newton. Thirty creative, improvisational activities are included to help kids learn grammar, punctuation, critical thinking and problem solving. Children in grades 2-10 will enjoy Newton's approach for developing foundational language skills.
Collection of word origins and an entertaining primer on classical times. This book contains English idioms and maxims, and their origins from classical history, literature, philosophy and drama. Begins with Homer and ends with 2nd century A.D.
This collection of articles from Gifted Child Today (compiled by Susan K. Johnsen and James Kendrick) were selected specifically for the teacher who is searching for ways to serve students who are gifted in English/language arts.
Imagine a treasure hunt that encourages your kids to start reading. From the author of Games for Reading, this book is a learning aid for beginning readers and their parents. Featuring 50 treasure hunt games, this book provides weeks of family fun, and enables busy parents to help their kids become better readers. As kids sharpen their reading skills, the treasure hunts become progressively more difficult.
Living Books is story telling programs with various titles like: Just Grandma & Me, Just Me and My Mom, Tortoise & the Hare, Arthurs Big Trouble and others. It is a great program which helps children read while entertaining them. It also allows you to switch between several languages like Spanish, French, German and Japanese.
A reprint of the nineteenth century classic reading primer. Still by far the best self study book for new readers. The use of pictures and review sections reinforce the learning and make it easy for kids to progress.
This book is written by two women obsessed with grammatical errors. The book covers just about every imaginable error that could happen in grammar in a funny, lighthearted manner. The authors even compare punctuation marks to traffic signals (a period is a stop sign, a comma a flashing yellow light). The books crowning glory is the nearly 30 cartoons on the subject of grammar that are sure to delight anyone while at the same time learning grammar rules.
Designed for gifted students in grades 4-8 as an around-the-world adventure, the activities in this book by Jacqueline Melin emphasize creativity, problem solving, inquiry, and critical thinking in the fields of math, language arts, leadership skills, social studies, and science. Projects include writing a fairy tale using jargon and cliches, studying and composing wartime songs, designing a Martian space colony, and inventing secret codes using binary, octal, and hexadecimal systems. Bonus miles are logged as each project is completed, encouraging self-directed students to focus and develop their independent study skills.
This series is meant to introduce young people to great poets like Whitman, Poe, Kipling, Shakespeare, Browning and Dickinson. Each book has about 25 poems or excerpts, vividly illustrated, with annotations to explain certain terminology, as well as the historic context. The rhythms and rhymes are meant to spark the imagination of children, and make an inviting portal into great poetry.
For ages 9-12, this book will make you feel like you've stepped into the mind of someone famous (and have fun) while using deductive reasoning to solve unique and challenging puzzles. Fifty Quizzlers pit right brain against left brain in a struggle to decipher famous (and not so famous) quotations. In addition to the 50 Quizzlers, this book contains biographies of all the figures quoted. Explore the motivating thoughts of some of the world’s most inspired minds.
This book by Dave Marks provides parents and educators ideas for discussing fiction with their children. The goal of this book is to help parents teach their children to enjoy reading.
In Seize the Story: A Handbook for Teens Who Like to Write, Victoria Hanley, award-winning author of young adult fiction, spills the secrets for bringing action, adventure, humor, and drama to stories. All of the elements of fiction, from creating believable dialogue to exciting plots, are laid out clearly and illustrated with examples taken straight from story excerpts by excellent writers. The book is packed with writing exercises designed to encourage teens to tell the stories that are theirs alone.
Lois Burdett transforms Shakespeare's complex verse into a format readily understood by children. There are wonderful drawings and anecdotes created by her Grade 2 and 3 students in Stratford, Ontario where she has taught Shakespeare for over two decades. Series includes: A Child's Portrait of Shakespeare; Macbeth: For Kids; Romeo and Juliet: For Kids; The Tempest: For Kids; Twelfth Night: For Kids; and, A Midsummer Night's dream: For Kids.
This book by Karen Andreola features an oral approach to teaching the basics of English grammar. This approach is particularly attractive to families homeschooling gifted children, since gifted children often have an aversion to written drill and practice activities. While the books are designed for students in the 4th through 8th grades, the grammar program can be conducted with children of a variety of age levels at once; students may accelerate in the program as fast as they are able to master the material.
This book by Judith Wynn Halsted, M.S. offers a list of recommended books for gifted students from preschool through high school. The author describes how to use books as bibliotherapy to provide support, guidance, and insight. This is an in valuable resource for parents looking for books to recommend to gifted readers not only to enjoy, but also to gain perspective on themselves and others. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book mines the rich ore of English. It covers the history of English, origins of rules of grammar, and vagaries of the language. There are chapters on spelling and Americanisms, wordplay, pronunciation, word origins, names, usage and dialects.
This is a workbook series offering five levels of vocabulary studies. The publisher describes the layout: "Lessons begin with a Latin phrase frequently used in English and contain 11-15 words, plus: phonetic pronunciation; parts of speech and multiple definitions; illustrative sentences with culturally varied literary, historical, or geographical references; derivations of words; related forms of the same word; familiar words based on the same root; challenge words based on the same root; pictorial illustrations of varying style and mood, including humor; exercises on synonyms, antonyms, analogies, sentence completions, and usage; vocabulary in context in paragraph form."
A valuable resource for students, this book by Philip Steinbacher, helps students learn to love vocabulary lessons. Students are taught to recognize, define, comprehend and use these words in their everyday lives.
This book, What's Your Opinion?: An Interactive Discovery-Based Language Arts Unit for High-Ability Learners, uses debate to extend students' abilities to analyze and interpret informational texts, strengthen students' reading strategies and fluency, and help students develop persuasive speaking and writing skills.
This multi-sensory grammar teaching program provides full instruction in the fundamentals of English grammar for the elementary and early middle school grade levels. Particularly recommended for twice-exceptional gifted children, especially those with dyslexia and other language learning disabilities. Advanced Winston Grammar kit is available for the junior high and high school grades.
Word Roots are workbooks for ages 8-11 or ages 12 to adult. By teaching kids to recognize the prefixes, roots, and suffixes that can reveal a word's meaning, you'll help your students expand their vocabulary, as well as their comprehension and spelling skills. Wonderful for warm-ups or word-of-the-day exercises, each activity introduces Greek or Latin roots, then builds understanding with their English counterparts.
These books teach vocabulary by giving students words to read in context, to write in sentences, and to recognize their meaning in exercises.
More than 3,000 different vocabulary words are introduced and taught in a series of nine books of increasing difficulties. Words are drawn from literature, textbooks, and SAT-I vocabulary lists.
This is a comprehensive curriculum guide for developmental word study. This phenomenon in word study has always been extremely popular for its developmental approach and hands-on methods for teaching children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. The revision offers a new laser sharp focus on assessment, organization for word study, research, and teacher-friendly word sorts and games.
Author Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. introduces educators to the complexities and challenges of providing appropriate educational experiences for gifted English Language Learners. This unique, comprehensive book guides educators toward identifying gifted students in this population, including a look at nonverbal and Spanish-language testing, and gives advice for integrating these students into any gifted program.
This workbook helps elementary age writers refine their sentence and paragraph writing. It contains reproducible pages, which provide practice in the basic components of writing including excercises to help students write more complex sentences, use figurative language, organize writing and thoughts, and more.
This distance learning program through EPGY offers English courses from the fourth-grade level through the Advanced Placement level. Students are placed into English Expository Writing courses based on age and standardized test scores.
The various Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) programs offered through Michigan State University (MSU) are dedicated to promoting differentiated educational programs for students in grades 7-12. Mathematics Science and Technology (MST) is a two-week residential program for academically talented students. CHAMP is a regional program for students highly gifted in mathematics. ISHALL is an accelerated, intensive two-year course in literature and language designed to meet the curricular goals and merit standards of high school English, grades 7-10, in two years. Plus, there is also a dual enrollment program, a Michigan-Shiga Exchange program, a CSI Forensic Science program and several others listed on the website.
Athena's Advanced Academy offers fast-paced and exciting online humanities classes for gifted students, including literature and vocabulary, writing and grammar, and history classes for those ready for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classes.
Online G3 offers accelerated online humanities classes for gifted students. As parents of gifted children, the instructors and moderators at G3 understand that younger children may be ready for the challenges of junior high and high school content, but still desire age-appropriate activities and accommodations for varied learning styles. G3 provides online peer interaction through monitored discussion boards and live webinars. Available classes include junior high and high school literature, Michael Clay Thompson grammar and vocabulary, U.S. History, mythology, and music history and appreciation. There are no age requirements for registration.
Advanced middle and high school students can experience this one- or two-week summer reading program where they will read great works of literature, converse with distinguished college professors and explore a whole new world of ideas through college-style seminar discussions on the campuses of Amherst College, Stanford University and The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. High school students will have the opportunity to sharpen their writing skills, prepare for the new verbal SAT, discuss college choices with professors and current college students, and tour local campuses.
The Read, Write & Type!™ Learning System provides systematic instruction with engaging games and lively graphics to help children learn to read. As children progress through the 40-lesson adventure, they become empowered to tackle the new words they encounter both in their reading and writing. But most of all, Read, Write & Type!™ is fun and easy to use.
This CD tests math and language abilities in a fun setting of rescuing Reader Rabbit in a castle. There is also hand-eye coordination games as well.
Grades 10 & 11; 2 weeks; residential. Open to advanced students who wish to refine their writing in a particular genre.
This site gives personalized English instruction to students of all ages using the parents' curriculum of choice. A full English program (reading, literature, composition, language and research, and communications) is taught via e-mail and fax. Students begin at their ability level and are guided towards excellence in the above areas. There are links for dictionaries, thesauruses, and grammar databases.
Handwriting Without Tears® (HWT) is the easy way to teach pre-printing, printing and cursive! It was developed by Jan Z. Olsen, OTR, an occupational therapist and handwriting specialist. She has more than 25 years of experience helping children and training teachers and therapists. HWT is an inclusive method for teaching children of ALL ability levels. Children love it.
Inspiration Software®, Inc. is a leader in visual thinking and learning that develops and publishes software tools that inspire learners of all ages to brainstorm, organize, plan, and create. With more than 10 million users worldwide, this software is revolutionizing visual learning in education—inspiring students to develop strong thinking and organizational skills and improve their academic performance.
Interactive toys that teach children basic skills, this mixed media line of learning tools uses printed books and electronic gadgetry to help early readers. They have a read aloud feature for children who are still developing reading vocabulary.
Pieces of Learning staff, with expertise in Differentiation, Standards-Based Teaching Activities, Assessment, Underachievement, and Gifted and Talented Education, publish supplemental Activity Books to improve student thinking and questioning skills, encourage creativity in the language arts, promote critical thinking in math and science, explore character education, present research skills and provide enrichment in social studies. Teacher Resource book topics include differentiation, assessment, achievement, motivation, and teaching strategies.
This online catalogue offers course materials in many math subject areas and in phonics. Placement tests are available to help when deciding where to place students.
This site is home to Scholastic, the global children’s publishing and media company, whose mission is instilling the love of reading and learning for lifelong pleasure in all children. Scholastic creates quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and help enlarge their understanding of the world around them.
Welcome to Stevenson Learning Skills, the company that publishes the Stevenson Reading Program, Semple Math and other materials for teaching essential skills to students. Our methods are unusual and innovative. We use established techniques like mnemonics (memory aids) and multisensory instruction in imaginative new ways. The materials accommodate common learning problems, such as attention deficits, phonological processing difficulties, memory weakness and sequencing confusion. In addition to publishing, we offer training and consult services. The Stevenson Language Skills Program covers reading, spelling and language arts. Semple Math teaches arithmetic operations, place value, word problems and more. Additional materials for teaching grammar, cursive writing and telling time is also available.
The Critical Thinking Company's products help students achieve better grades and higher test scores through critical thinking exercises in reading, writing, math and science lessons. Students carefully analyze what they are learning, producing deeper understanding. Over time, students who practice critical thinking learn to apply it throughout their education and life.
The Verbal Advantage Student Edition was specifically developed to help junior high and high school students and is also great for adults who are well on their way to learning English as a second language. There are 16 lessons, two per audio unit, which introduce new vocabulary words using fun, dramatized stories, typical English paragraphs, and unique "top twenty" word categories.
This program promises to increase one's vocabulary by 15 minutes per day. There is a one-week free trial; the continuing program is $10 per month.
The WordMasters Challenge is a fun and mind-stretching classroom competition for Language Arts students in grades 3 - 12.
This online instructional service provides private writing teachers who help with organizing a full-fledged writing curriculum or as a supplement to virtually any other course of study. Students work at their own pace with their own teacher, and all of the hand-tailored services are guaranteed within 24 hours.
The Great Books Foundation offers people of all ages an exciting way to read and discuss outstanding works of literature. As a nonprofit educational organization, the foundation publishes reading series for children and adults, and conducts training in the shared inquiry method throughout the U.S. and abroad.
This site is devoted to Lewis Carroll's two famous Alice books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. There are numerous games, activities and quizzes.
Bethump'd with Words® tests strategic skills and knowledge of everyday words, including many from the lingo of today's youth.
This game consists of reading short passages from famous books aloud, then having your partner answer trivia questions about what they just heard. Excellent for improving reading comprehension and memory skills.
A series of computer games that teach different subjects. The series includes The Castle of Dr. Brain, The Island of Dr. Brain, The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain, Dr. Brain's IQ Adventure, Action Reaction, Puzzleopolis, Mindventure, and The Time Warp of Dr. Brain. Subjects covered range from math to antonyms and synonyms, logic and reasoning, astronomy, weights and measures.
This site offers a free reading incentive program encourage kids in grades K-8 to read. With the help of Rex Reader and Bailey Bookmark, kids have more than 4,000 popular and acclaimed titles.
The Children's Literature Web Guide is a website that gathers together and categorizes the growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises in the book world.
Daily Grammar is a fun, convenient way to learn grammar. By simplifying complex grammar subjects, Daily Grammar is a great instructional tool for all ages and skill levels. By practicing language rules, any person able to read will be able to master English grammar.
The Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature (DAWCL) has more than 4,500 records from 56 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland). The user should be a librarian or a teacher intervening for a child-reader, although anyone may make use of it to find the best in children's literature including parents, book store personnel, and children and young adults.
ECCE ROMANI is an online Resource for students interestes in studying Latin.
This free curriculum website provides educators with lesson plans and web links for the humanities, including: arts and culture; literature and language arts; foreign languages; and, history and social studies. This site is a valuable resource for educators looking for creative ways to better teach the humanities. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to the classroom.
eTAP is a non-profit education corp., whose purpose is to provide K-12 curriculum for the core subjects of Mathematics, English, Science, and History on the world wide Internet. The instructional material is designed to assist students, teachers and parents. The Lessons can be used for students’ instruction and for parents and teachers as an aid to help their children and students.
This website contains 5000 collegiate words with brief definitions designed to help you communicate effectively, be more persuasive, and even score higher on the SAT, GRE and other tests. An audio CD is also available for purchase.
This website provides links to a number of gifted websites, including a listing of professional associations and news publications. There is also a listing of specific subject matter links on such topics as math, science and social studies.
This website allows visitors to play a classic word game every day or visit our archive to play games you missed during the past two months. The Classic Word Games come in four fun formats: Definition Demolition: Use definition clues to unscramble three words before the bomb goes off! Flip Flop: It's as easy as matching the synonyms, antonyms, or slang terms before time runs out. Transform Brainstorm: Presto chango! Transform one word into another one letter at a time by matching the clues. Match Maker: Know your word histories? Or geography? Or history? Prove it with our hot matching challenge.
This website has a variety of resources for teachers, students and curious adults. Including reading, math, and technology resources and links.
This site for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has the nation's most extensive database of awards, services and publications for artists of all disciplines. NYFA Source identifies more than 2,700 awards, 2,100 services, 800 publications for artists in the disciplines of dance, music, folk/traditional, theater, performance art, visual, design, media and literary arts.
This site is an introduction to past and present Nobel Laureates with articles written by Laureates, biographies, autobiographical essays and photos and video footage. Fascinating information into the lives of these accomplished intellectuals.
In association with MarcoPolo, the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation, this website can be used as an effective language arts and reading resource for both teachers and students. This site is full of Internet-based content, including: a database of K-12 lesson plans, an index of student reading materials and a large database of English web resources.
This curriculum website is offered by the California Department of Education. SCORE Literature Cyberguides were designed as a statewide effort to create model supplemental and enrichment materials based on California's state standards in reading and language arts. The units are available in four levels: K-3, 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12; some are also available in Spanish.
This website has everything Shakespeare for kids, including: Shakespeare challenges, scripts for kids, word games, fun facts, coloring and puzzles, information about Queen Elizabeth, and exhibits at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
This website offers learning tools in language arts, character education, and math developed by Kathy Richardson, one of America's leading elementary math educators.
Fast ForWord programs are based on years of scientific research on how the brain learns, and use patented technologies to build oral language and learning skills in a highly efficient, structured way. Fast ForWord exercises help students master the sounds, structures, and patterns of oral language, giving them the tools to develop an automatic mastery of the fundamental skills that they will need in all aspects of learning.
The comprehensive language lessons teach you how to speak and read new languages at your own pace. There is no subscription, monthly fee or software to download to learn a new language. Loquella developed this language course based off the Foreign Service Institute's language lessons. FSI has been using this methond for over 30 years to teach thousands of serious language students. You choose your own level of difficulty as well as your own way of learning.
The Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Series is a group of interactive computer adventures in which the child is tasked with accomplishing a "big-picture" effort (rebuilding a carnival, cleaning up a park, etc.) by performing a series of educational tasks such as spelling, math, and sorting. The software is designed to advance your child when they master a task, but also properly review areas where more work is needed. It makes learning fun through humorous but challenging exercises.
SpellingCity is an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun.
This web site features live tailor-made French lessons with a trained teacher through your personal computer. All you need is a webcam and headsets. Take your lessons as you wish according to your free time, your needs or your desire, without being forced to book at set times.