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2009

BSD: Biography Maker

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Great site to enabling students to write a great biography using the following steps:To create an exciting biography, you will now follow these steps: 1. Questioning | 2. Learning | 3. Synthesis | 4. Story-Telling Six Traits of Effective Writing

2008

Super Action Comic Maker

Easy to use Comic Creator to inspire story-telling. Choose the background for your Action hero. Use the slider to choose the pose. Add speech bubbles and text. Click next top add up to six frames.

BigUniverse.com

Read & Create Children's Picture Books Online - Great authoring tool for creating your own books. Use the library of pictures or upload your own.

Writing Fun by Jenny Eather- helping kids write using text organizers.

Excellent site for different genre examples and organizers. Takes time to get familar with site but worth it. Nice for smartboard as there is a write online feature.

Ghotit Dyslexia Literacy Assistance.

Ghotit offers unique writing and reading online services for people who suffer from dyslexia, dysgraphia or people who are not native-English speakers. Download the Internet Explorer plugin with text to speech capability.

2007

Myths and Legends from E2BN

Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends. Almost every town, city and village in Britain has its own special story, be it a Celtic legend, Dark Age mystery, strange happening or fable.

Writing notebook"Paragraph unit"Writing a Paragraph topic

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BrainPop movie that explains how to write a paragraph. Great for whole class instruction and then let students review individually.

Make your own comic with MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages

Looking for an alternative to a quiz or an assignment of boring vocabulary definitions written on notebook paper? Trying to find a way to prompt students to write even short passages? Trying to teach simple dialog to ESL/ELL students? Working on appropriate language and interpersonal skills with emotional support students? Looking for a creative way to make clever newsletter additions, bulletin board items, or class rules? Use this great online tool for both students and teachers to create web-based or printed comic strips from a selection of characters and voice bubbles-- and with your OWN text!

Hamburger Paragraph

Great online tool for creating the hamburger paragraph! Fill in the sections then Save as Webpage which can then be opened in MS Word, or for the more adventuresome, embedded directly in a blog. Be sure to create a folder to save the files as the page contains an image

National Writing Project - 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing

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NWP's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing answers those questions and more with 30 successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers. Since the National Writing Project does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques.Click the home link to view all the resources from this site

Teacher Tap: Magnet Poetry, Stories, & Mad Libs: Writing Fun On The Web

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Whether creating poems with electronic magnets or choosing words for a Mad Lib, kids of all ages are attracted to humorous forms of writing. The web provides many opportunities to explore words.

2006

WritingFix: Home of Interactive Writing Prompts and 6 Trait Resources for Teachers

WritingFix: Where getting your daily writing "fix" is more important than fixing your writing. Write EVERY day! Hello writers, teachers, and students. Have you been inspired to do any writing today?

Two-Minute Mystery Writing Club

This project is meant to take a bit of the mystery out of mystery writing. Classes who register are invited to submit short "Two-Minute Mysteries" similar to the ones authored by Donald Sobol. They will challenge others to exert their sleuthing skills to solve them. MUST REGISTER by Nov-Dec 2006 . Work beging week of January 8th. Lasts 2 weeks