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This point was first used as a sign for a reader to pause. Whether the point was low, middle or high on the line of…

Word processor is a term first used in the late 1960s when it was invented by people working for the IBM computer company. It is…

The ancient Greeks used the word túpos ‘a blow or the mark left by a blow’. The Romans changed this word to typus. In the…

Emoticons, the use of certain punctuation marks (points, dashes) to represent expressions, were used in the 1800s in Morse code and, later, in handwritten letters…

The @ symbol was invented by calligraphers (professional handwriters) in the 700s as an abbreviation for the ancient Roman (Latin) word ad meaning ‘at, to,…

The word computer entered English in 1646 meaning ‘a person who computes’. Academics borrowed it from Latin computare (com- ‘together, with’ + putare ‘to consider,…

There are over 1,420 comprehension questions in WINGS Readalong and the list is still growing in 2019. 🤯

Readalong subscribers can get excited about the newly re-designed games.
They are programmed to work on all classroom devices, so no more problems with Adobe…