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VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. 

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VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

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VocabGrabber lets you automatically create lists of vocabulary from any text.

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Pete's PowerPoint Station is your destination for free PowerPoint presentations for kids and teachers about Vocabulary Development, and so much more.

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WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text.

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Toolsuite for visualizing and exploring passages of text.

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It's a great, goal-oriented learning resource with the potential to turn vocab lessons into a fun challenge. Grades:7-12

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Level up with gamified vocabulary study for middle and high school. Grades: 6-12

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Strategic vocab game gets students digging into roots and affixes. Grades: 5-8

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The Challenge: How can you make morphology, the study of grammatical units of speech, fun for middle school children?

The Solution: Part of the The World of Lexica, Ink Blott Underground is a fun English Language Arts (ELA) game where players dig through a series of crystal-filled caves and bring their vivid world back to life by using word parts to fix broken words and sentences. Essentially, the game educates students on prefixes and suffixes in relation to root words.

The object of this game is to help Blott the Inkling. Inklings are inky, resourceful mole-like creatures that live below the ground in the literary world. Blott must work tirelessly to revitalize and maintain the dense and perilous Verbose Underground. Players work to guide Blott through caverns to collect crystals and unlock levels; however, the paths to the caverns are often blocked. Blott must repair corrupted words or sentences to unblock the paths to the caverns in order to reach the crystals and unlock the level. As players progress through the levels, they are introduced to more sophisticated gameplay and a higher degree of difficulty in word pairings.

More information about this game can be found at Touch Press Games.

The Results: Ink Blott Underground became one of the favorite mini-games inside The World of Lexica and received recognition at the International Serious Play Conference.

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The Challenge: How can you make morphology, the study of gram­mat­ical units of speech, fun for middle school children? The Solution: Part of the The World of Lexica , Ink Blott Under­ground is a fun English Language Arts (ELA) game where players dig through a series of crystal-filled caves and bring their vivid world back to life by using word parts to fix broken words and sentences.

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Mashup of Boggle and Candy Crush gets kids forming new words. Grades: 4-12

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Word welding just got more riveting! Swap letters and unlock new abilities to crack these word puzzles and become the world's greatest word welder! Expand your vocabulary using the built-in dictionary-uncover definitions of words you never even knew existed! Create clever combos and use special abilities to multiply your score. W.E.L.D.E.R. | SWAP is the latest FREE-to-try twist on the hit word puzzle game, W.E.L.D.E.R. (#1 iPad seller and Apple's iPhone Game of the Week)!

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Word welding just got more riveting! Swap letters and unlock new abilities to crack these word puzzles and become the world's greatest word welder! Expand your vocabulary using the built-in dictionary-uncover definitions of words you never even knew existed! Create clever combos and use special abilities to multiply your score.

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Deep, data-driven vocabulary tool challenges learners. Grades: 4-12

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Personalized, differentiated instruction helps you achieve lasting outcomes by prioritizing higher order thinking over memorization.

Membean is used in more than 2,000 schools in over 30 countries.

at a Glance

Automatically differentiates and personalizes to each student's skill level.

Makes teachers more efficient by saving them time and lightening their workload.

Prioritizes higher order thinking and word consciousness over memorization.

Works alongside any curriculum, including AP, IB, ESL, and more.

Promotes multiyear retention instead of focusing on short-term performance.

Gives teachers control over each student's goals and objectives.

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How Works

Encoding vs. Retrieval

Retrieving what you need from your brain is often a bigger problem than just learning what you need. Membean continually reshapes your memory to make information more retrievable by spending 80% of training time asking you nuanced questions of varying difficulty.

Conventional Method

You forget much of what you learn quickly because more time is spent encoding instead of helping you retrieve the information you are being taught.

How Membean Works

Membean leverages the benefits of continual retrieval to train your brain to remember longer and retrieve reliably.

Blocked Learning vs. Spaced Learning

The timing of practice matters a great deal. Blocked learning creates the illusion of mastery. In actuality, rapid gains lead to rapid forgetting. Alternatively, spaced practice - where learning a single concept is stretched over a longer period of time - leads to true mastery.

Conventional Method

Weekly word lists are taught in a short period of time - similar to cramming for a test - followed by limited amounts, if any, of follow-up learning.

How Membean Works

Membean's algorithm introduces the same amount of material over a significantly longer period of time, resulting in long-term retention.

Memorizing vs. Higher Order Thinking

Easy learning is not strong learning. Membean elicits nuanced thinking and allows for mistakes, causing the experiences of surprise and internal dialogue, both of which aid in retention. We utilize 9 powerful pedagogical approaches to help you understand there's more to a word than just its definition.

Conventional Method

You are repeatedly presented with definitions and examples, resulting in memorization instead of robust mental connections.

How Membean Works

Membean applies layer upon layer of nuanced meaning and increased difficulty, encouraging you to form a rich mental picture of each word.

for Educators

We give control back to you.

Customize how long and how often your students learn. Set the quantity of questions on quizzes and how frequently they're issued. Tailor each learner's individual experience in every class. Individualized preferences for students who need accommodations? We do that! Tweak each class to your own satisfaction.

Genuine literacy for every student.

ELL? Gifted? Unmotivated reader? Membean customizes for all students and engenders word confidence. Learning definitions is just the beginning. Literacy requires deftly using words, recognizing them in text, and encountering them repeatedly, all of which eventually lead to a nuanced understanding.

Designed by teachers.

Collectively, the Membean team has 150 years of experience in the classroom. We get that students have varying levels of proficiency and diverse learning styles. We get that you need actionable data to monitor, support, and challenge students. We get the demands of state testing, especially when it comes to literacy. We get that your instructional time is precious. We get you because we are you.

Empathetic human support.

Our friendly, helpful support staff of former teachers who have used Membean in the classroom is standing by to help you with empathy and understanding. Our support team specializes in classroom needs at every level. We'll get back to you the same day. If it's an emergency, you'll hear from us within the hour. We're here for you!

Differentiated vocabulary for your students is just a click away.

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Learn the meaning of vocabulary words through fun games, and put it to good use as part of everyday conversation. Grades: 4-8

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Help your students build a rich vocabulary of essential words! World's Worst Pet exposes students to over 1000 Tier Two words at 6 different levels through four engaging games. Aligned to the Common Core, this app provides student-friendly definitions, a playful narrative, a fun reward system and thought-provoking writing prompts!

World's Worst Pet is part of i-Ready- an award-winning, blended learning program published by Curriculum Associates. Learn more about i-Ready at i-ready.com/empower.

FEATURES

World's Worst Pet is structured to provide repeated exposures to a cluster of conceptually related target words.
* Teaches more than 1000 words across five grade levels, from grades 4 - 8 with content available for students who are working a level behind
* Student-friendly definitions provide clear explanations with rich examples that illustrate how each word is used.
* Engaging narrative and reward system keeps students motivated
* Activities include word context, word sort, synonyms, and antonyms.
* Students see the same word multiple times in a single set of activities.
* Includes Spanish cognates
* Includes immediate feedback
* Uses a real human voice not synthesized robotic speech
* Aligns with Common Core State Standards
* Writing prompts provide an opportunity to use words in types of writing identified by the Common Core

RESEARCH BASE

World's Worst Pet leverages best practices from Reading research
* Targets Tier Two words, selected from research-based lists.
* Also targets domain-specific words, including science and social studies words.
* Teaches words in conceptually related clusters
* Provides clear student-friendly explanations
* Provides multiple exposures and repeated practice across a variety of contexts
* Helps students make multiple connections between words and their experiences.
* Explores word relationships, including synonyms and antonyms
* Includes Spanish cognates such as vehículo for vehicle or numeroso for numerous
* Includes writing prompts focused on the target words in each cluster

ALIGNED TO COMMON CORE

World's Worst Pet develops concepts, skills, and strategies as targeted by the Common Core.
* "The importance of students acquiring a rich and varied vocabulary," write the authors of the Common Core, "cannot be overstated."
* Tier Two words are central to understanding complex text, and World's Worst Pet provides multiple exposures and repeated practice in these words.
* Aligns with vocabulary standards in these sections of the Common Core State Standards:
o Reading Standards for Literature
o Reading Standards for Information Text
o Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

SUPPORT

Have questions or feedback?
Email: i-readysupport@cainc.com
Phone: 800-225-0248
Monday - Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. EST
Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST

Version 1.1.0

iOS compatibility and fixes

Great For Educational Purposes

I Use This App At My School And It Works Great! Just Wish There Were More So Called 'Options'

Just noooo

This is the worst thing in the world like a two year old can do better then this like who would make this you people call this a app well I call it crap you don't learn any thing.

This app is terrible

Really? You expect me to do this at school and call it "fun"? Disgusting! It is the worst app I've ever seen. I hope no other human being has to go through this. Making me write an essay... As if!

Information

Seller

Curriculum Associates, LLC

Compatibility

Requires iOS 5.1.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.

Copyright

© 2014 Curriculum Associates

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Scrabble meets Choose Your Own Adventure in a dueling of (s)words. Grades: 4-8

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Don't bother. $5/month subscription fee to move past the first level. My kid loved this game, but the price is far too steep to play long term. You do get access to around 16 other apps for this fee, but I doubt my kid would use all of them often enough to make it worth the price. Sad that we can't get this app for a flat fee.

Hi Bluedtizz. Sorry you're not happy with the subscription offer. We do also have a standalone version of MasterSwords called MasterSwords - Premium. You'll find it at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/masterswords-premium/id1261918239?ls=1&mt=8. Hope that helps!

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‎Words are your weapons as you battle zombies, goblins and an assortment of other unsavory creatures. And if that's not enough, take on your friends in multiplayer matches! ALSO AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE ALL-ACCESS PASS FROM TOUCH PRESS GAMES. Download today and subscribe for new games and expansion...

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Fun game-like way to review spelling or content vocabulary. Grades: 1-8

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Explore the land of Words, a magical place where characters challenge you to guess and spell the on-screen images. Play collaboratively or competitively with your real-life friends or our loveable characters!

Words have power in this adventure! Will you become the Word Champion?

"This interplay between the physical and digital realms looks and feels like magic." - Forbes
"Osmo has been a revolution in our family." - Wired

Awarded:
**Best Design** - Good Design, 2016
**Best Product Designs** - Fast Company Finalist, 2016
**Innovative Toy of the Year** - TOTY Finalist, 2015
**Best Inventions** - TIME, 2014

*Requires the Osmo Base and Words tiles found at www.playosmo.com

* Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067

About Osmo:
Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial technology.

Version 3.2.9

+ Osmo Sampler program no longer requires a Credit Card, and apps will never expire

Poorly thought out game

Rather than picking words that are aligned to the age group selected, like short easy words for 4 year olds, it uses words too big for them to learn to spell but makes it easy by only requiring them to guess just the first letter. Lazy on the developers part. Worst of all, no way to turn off the clues that the character gives. Doesn't allow my kid to try to figure out the letter. While he's thinking, it'll just tell him what the letter is. If he makes one wrong guess, it'll just tell him what the letter is. GIVE THE KID A LITTLE TIME TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT!

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback.

1. Junior Mode - if you're in Junior mode, tap on the settings button ('II') in the top left hand corner. Once here you will see the words 'Home, Restart, and Achievements.' Underneath these words is the option to turn on or off the 'hints' and 'speech.'

2. Play Mode (after selecting versus or Zen) - to increase the difficulty, tap on the settings button ('II') in the top left hand corner. Once here you will see the words 'Home, Restart, Achievements, and Albums.' Underneath these words is the option to turn on or off the 'hints' and 'speech.' There is also a difficulty meter where players can select the levels Easy, Medium, Hard, and Impossible. The Impossible level is an adult favorite!

Please note that some downloadable Words albums that are created by the general public may not have these options associated with them.

If you have any questions, please contact us at support@playosmo.com.

Osmo Customer Experience Team

App Issue, Please Help

When playing Osmo Tangram the app continuously directs us to move our pieces to within the boundary. When we move them the app does not self correct, but stays frozen on the screen. We have not had this issue in the past. Please help. Thank you

Good game

More levels! Just like I said for numbers words needs more levels to! Overall the concept is great 👍🏿 and I really like the toy just more levels please!

Information

Compatibility

Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Copyright

© 2014 Tangible Play, Inc.

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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