Cool
Tools
It can be difficult
to generate exercises for students so they can practice
new skills. There are a few sites, however, that help you create cloze
activities, customized dictionaries, and puzzles.
Discovery School
Teaching Tools
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html
Puzzlemaker
is a puzzle generation tool. Create and print 11 different
customized puzzles such as word search and crossword puzzles. Develop
your own word list and then this site will create a puzzle for you.
You can also
add graphics by selecting from hundreds of pieces of clip art.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Discovery School's
Instant Glossary Builder lets you create a custom
glossary from any list of vocabulary words. That means you can give
students
a list of the most helpful, relevant terms for any project or assignment
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in any subject area. Just list the words and then select the information
you
want to include in the glossary. Some of the optional selections are
definitions, examples, synonyms, and more.
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/glossarybuilder/index.html
Choose from several
vocabulary worksheet templates in this
"Create a Worksheet" area and create a worksheet in
less than five minutes. Available templates include fill in the blank
(cloze) with and without word banks, ordering sentences, and matching.
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/index.html
Quia, or
Quintessential Instructional Archive, is an e-learning website
that provides educators with access to more than 500,000 online games
and quizzes in hundreds of subject areas, all created by teachers around
the world.
Although there
is a directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in
more than 40 subject areas, most are too difficult for LVA students.
Of
interest, though, are Quia's Activity Editor templates. You can create
13
types of games, including flash cards, matching games, concentration
(memory) games, word search puzzles, hangman, and challenge boards.
The
activities reside on the Quia website where anyone with a Web browser
can
play them. Visit the site at http://www.quia.com.
