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State Home School Groups
Check out these well-maintained indexes of state and local home school organizations.
Spelling by Sound and Structure (Rod and Staff)
Spelling by Sound and Structure progresses, over seven levels, from phonetic spelling rules, through exceptions and word roots and prefixes, concluding with word study.
Typing Instructor For Kids
Game-centered typing instruction, highly customizable with 11 different typing plans.
Read, Write & Type
Early keyboarding (combined with ongoing handwriting practice at an appropriate level) can allow dysgraphic and dyslexic students to advance in reading and writing skills.
Typing.com
A free, comprehensive keyboarding system, designed for middle and upper grades.
Dance Mat Typing
This free online touch-typing course is a series of games designed for young learners.
GameMaker
Like Scratch, GameMaker is an introduction to programming; the difference is that Scratch is a free educational language, while GameMaker is proprietary and for-profit. But GameMaker allows young users to actually create computer games, which can be a powerful teaching tool.
