For several years, some colleagues and I have been stressing to prospective and practicing teachers how important it is to use language exploration and wordplay within language-arts classrooms. Below are listed several sites that can help teachers find interesting examples of such explorations and language games.
Actual Newspaper
Headlines
Examples of how headlines can go wrong
Anagramgenius
Calls itself the "definitive anagram site"
A Collection
of Word Oddities and Trivia
Examples of all sorts of linguistic curiosities
Etymologic
An interactive word game based on etymology
Etymologically
Speaking
A list of some curious word origins
A
Game a Day
A new game each day
Richard Lederer's
Verbivore
The site for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. This is the site
that I would recommend that people start with.
Origin
of Phrases
A page that investigates how common phrases came to be
Pittsburghese
The unofficial language of the Steel City
Tom Swifties
I love most of these adverbial puns. Here is a list of Swifties, arranged
alphabetically
Words and Wordplay
"A gallimaufry of logodaedaly and legerdemain"
Word Play
Sites that feature fun with words
Word Play and
Language Humor Index
From the Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere