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Click on the links below for fun ways to practice your spelling and learn useful literacy skills.As you are all very aware, our them for this term is 'Story' and we have discovered many different ways that stories are told. Mrs Pene of Room 10 told me about these great links that help you to create stories.I checked them out and I think you will have great fun creating your own funny, scary or imaginative stories. http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-writing-storymaker.htm http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/MoreGames/Funnyfillinluckotheirish

Building vocabulary knowledge is an area that we ALL need to develop. The links below will give us practice in building our vocabulary bank of words. http://www.visuwords.com/ http://www.lexipedia.com/ http://thesaurus.com/ http://eslbears.homestead.com/contact_info.html http://www.playkidsgames.com/vocabularyGames.htm# http://www.manythings.org/lulu/ (the link above is great for children learning English as a second language) http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/grammar_tutorial.htm http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm http://www.learningchocolate.com/ http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab_sat.htm (this is a challenging vocab link) http://www.vocabulary.co.il/synonyms/intermediate/intermediate-adjective-synonyms/ http://www.vocabulary.co.il/word-play/ http://www.vocabularycoach.com/

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 * Use more descriptive ways to say 'said''. Click on the link below to practise alternatives. It will also help you learn the punctuation required for direct spee**ch.