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collection of games you can adapt for your learners and embed on the wiki ..

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Games that could be useful for teaching and learning literacy skills.. wordsearch, memory, crosswords.. appears to be free, plus you can make your own, and embed them in your own site.

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game literacy puzzle free freeware web-based webapp embed

Fine Print, the journal of the Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council (VALBEC) has been archived, and you may download old editions from this page (PDF).

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fine.print valbec adult.literacy literacy journal free download

UK site gathering resources for writing and spelling.. printable and screen-able (eg pdf, ppt, word.. )

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literacy spelling writing resource collection

a couple of spelling games based on the works of Shakespeare.. canadian project.. 

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literacy spelling shakespeare canada resource game interactive

The BBC is packed full of useful literacy and learning resources.. like this collection, organised by topic and year level. 

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literacy resource interactive bbc game

The BBC has a collection of clips for classroom learning.. organised by subject and topic.. great, except for the "not available in your area" sign (UK only, i guess. Boo.)

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literacy video clip classroom resource collection

Some interactive games for literacy learning.. mainly for primary children, but some could work with adults.

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literacy game collection resource interactive

Here's a list of useful activities for literacy learners.. intended for children, but seems you could adapt for adults. 

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interesting idea for spelling game.. but this would get annoying fast. Great visuals.. but no real reason to be spinning the wheel here. And no keyboard input. And only one feedback "great".

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spelling game literacy education e-learning visual animation

i've only tried out one level.. but this seemed interesting and worth another look (Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary).. shipwreck / diving theme, highly visual. 

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spelling game visual literacy

i've used this in literacy classes a couple of times.. a great whole-body avatar generator (for a super-hero version of you).. not so easy to get a likeness, but lots of fun. There used to be a random button, but not in this re-make.

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avatar generator fun cartoon comic literacy

"WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing.." (looks interesting)

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opensource lexicon literacy word database wordnet reference linguistic

interesting article from How stuff works.. how to volunteer/ help people with *low literacy skills* (hardly anyone is fully non-literate!) If you're in Melbourne, head down to Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC) and volunteer. They'll train you.

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accessace volunteer literacy article how-to tutorial cnlc

Researchers study guerillas (in Colombia) to learn about literacy effects on brain ..seems the angular gyrus is active in  prediction from visual cues.

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research literacy brain prediction visual colombia

Wow !! Nice animation studio.. you can drag characters onto the stage, give them expressions and actions.. add talk balloons.. etc. Could be good for adult literacy classroom.. Not sure whether you can embed the output on your own site..

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literacy cartoon comic animation generator

Collection of Nasreddin stories (is this some kind of illegal scanning operation?). Beautiful images, lovely classic stories. Perfect for literacy or English as a second language (ESL). (Thanks Dale.)

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nasreddin esl literacy stories visual fable

i like the free dictionary.. even though the site is covered with advertisements, it's good quality.. here's the idiom section. i was looking for idioms relating to the Hat.. and i found plenty. 

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hat idiom free.dictionary free word language literacy resource dictionary

Here's a fun and bizarre story.. you don't expect the cute animal story to have a literacy focus.. but this one does. Someone is training dogs to listen while children read. The important thing is, the dog won't laugh when the child makes a mistake. 

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dog animal literacy news article

Wow! This site is well-constructed.. using many bundles of data to create visuals (charts, maps etc) against factors like fertility, population, miltary spending.. all on a global scale. Great for numeracy i would say..

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numeracy math literacy global data visual visualisation