The second semester of each school year often brings together students nationwide in a common foreboding: the knowledge that standardized tests will soon be upon them.  For elementary and middle school students, this usually means some type of basic reading and math assessment, and possibly science and social studies assessments, as well.  For high school […]

I couldn’t have been more excited when I discovered that Vocabulary.co.il had added an updated version of my all-time favorite word game.  Any games that lets you mix and match the letters of a word to make new words gets ‘two thumbs up’ from me!
The newest kid on the block at the Vocabulary.co.il website is […]

If you ask my youngest son, spelling tests are far, far scarier than anything that Hollywood’s best horror writers can dish out.  A couple of years ago, I could track the onset of his chronic stomach aches to the exact moment the next spelling or vocabulary test was announced.  Having struggled with phonics his whole […]