MELANIE GOLD
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Fun Stuff for Kids

www.puzzlemaker.com/ is offered through Discovery Channel and seems to be the mother of all puzzle sites. You can create word finds, crosswords, mazes, cryptograms, and a lot more. You can also order a CD-ROM for $20 that includes all the Web stuff, plus clip art, etc.

At www.wordcentral.com/, offered through Merriam-Webster, there is a student dictionary and also a feature where kids can create their own dictionary. There's also a word-of-the-day function. Here kids can look up vocab words, make poems, and write "secret messages" in code.

And www.funbrain.com/words.html has more than a dozen activities: unscrambling words, learning and practicing parts of speech, filling in blanks to write silly stories, practice spelling, etc.

Quote of the Week

“A man must say what he means, or he may not mean what he says.” - Sir Reginald Johnston, from _The Last Emperor_

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