In the News - Classroom Strategies That Improve Comprehension

The Institute of Education Sciences has released a new report presenting recommendations to improve adolescent literacy. Teaching text connections in class is critical to improving students' reading abilities, the report says. Book Punch facilitates recommended actions.

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What's New - Interactive Writing Sites' Redesign

Merit has recently redesigned the home pages of paragraphpunch.com and essaypunch.com. The new home pages make the different usage options clearer to students and teachers.

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Funding Opportunity - Intel's INSPIRE-EMPOWER Challenge

Intel's INSPIRE.EMPOWER Challenge is calling for the best technology solutions to address four areas of global need - education, healthcare, economic development, and the environment. The contest will award seed funding of $100,000 USD to one winner in each category.

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Site for Teachers - Wordle

Wordle generates "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Wordle is a fun way to use technology to build vocabulary skills.

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