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A new project called Wordnik, which was inspired by a TED talk about the shortcomings of online dictionaries, plans to find out everything about every word.

Using a web site as a core piece of your language arts teaching opens up a number of possibilities for ties with the reading part of the curriculum.
It can be used anywhere a class newspaper would be used.
It can also be used as the organizing entity for your start of day routines. You can set up daily features as well as adding any interesting articles you've found or any date specific web sites.