06/21/2010
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Scholastic Writer's Workshop |
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Interactive Writing Activities and Tools!
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Myths and Legends Story Creator
- Create your own stories with Story Creator 2! | ||
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Scholastic
Story Starters A creative activity that
can be different every time you try it. Select your grade and then spin
the wheels to see what your story will be about. Then, choose a format for
the story. | ||
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Stop and Go Stories. Choose a picture and help the characters write a story! | ||
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Write Your Own Play This activity will help you make your own play. You can
then print it out and go back to the | ||
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Write your Own Fractured Fairy Tale (Read Write Think) This
interactive tool gives students a choice of three fairy tales to read. | ||
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Create a Comic Online Generator Compose your own comic strips for a variety of contexts. (Instructional Plan) Read*Write*Think | ||
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Letter Generator- Interactive activity for writing friendly or business letters. Read*Write*Think | ||
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Book Report
Sandwich - Write a book report online! Gather all the ingredients you'll
need to write a tasty book report. | ||
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Story
Map Interactive tool provides a set of graphic organizer to help
map out the key literary | ||
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Writing Fun - text organizers to assist students with the
writing process.
Texts covered include reports, procedures, explanations, expositions
(persuasion, point of view), discussions, narratives, recounts, descriptions,
responses, poetry, letters, invitations, | ||
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Character Traits- Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives Read*Write*Think | ||
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Character Trading Cards The interactive Character Trading Cards tool is a fun and useful way to explore a character. Read*Write*Think | ||
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Webbing Tool Use this interactive to create free-form graphic organizers. Read*Write*Think | ||
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Mystery Cube Use this tool to sort out the clues in mysteries or to develop outlines for your own stories. | ||
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Writing Detective (follow the steps to organize a how-to-essay) | ||
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Essay Map This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an
outline that includes an introductory statement; | ||
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Fact Fragment Frenzy an online model for finding facts in nonfiction text, and summarizing the main points. | ||
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Myths
Brainstorming Machine This machine was built to help you come up with ideas
to write a myth of your own. | ||
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Brochure Maker Create and print a brochure or flyer in minutes. | ||
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A Seaside Postcard (insert frame bubbles to create a humorous postcard) | ||
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Animal Talk Working with captions; National Geographic | ||
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Alphabet Organizer
The option
to enter one word, more than one word, or a word and |
Learn Alberta Interactive Resources
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Grade
four and Five Language Arts - Basketball Clinic
This interactive resource from The Learning Federation asks you |
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Gr. 5 and 6
LearnAlberta:
Pop Star Puzzle An
interactive resource from The Learning Federation; |
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Gr. 4 LearnAlberta: Selling Soft Drinks Conduct a survey and choose ingredients for a soft drink based on survey results. |
| GR. 6 and 7
Fashion
Design: Market Research This interactive resource from
The Learning Federation challenges you to analyze information gathered from market research. |
| GR. 6 and 7
Celebrity
Garbage: Cal Calvino (Grades 6 and 7) learn
how to write a factual recount of events by helping a detective determine what happened to a missing celebrity. Compose a factual recount of events and make a conclusion about the case. |
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Gr. 4-6
LearnAlberta:
Communicating Ideas Using Posters, Newspapers, and Comics
Design
and print effective posters, |
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Gr. 4-6 Rap Machine Space Travel Change the lyrics of a rap song to create a new rap song about space travel. |
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Web Quests and Writing Projects
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Aesop's Fables Webquest (Grade 5) |
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Fun With Fables A WebQuest |
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The Realm of Fairy Tales (analyzing and writing fairy tales) |
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A New Twist on an Old Tale (Cinderella and Ancient Greece) |
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Reader's
Theater WebQuest This Web Quest provides a foundation in "Reader's Theater."
Working in small groups,
students |
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A Novel Approach (grade 5) |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Newspaper project) |
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Book Trailers- Movies for Literacy! (Create book trailers for favorite books using Photo Story) |
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Headline
News: China (Grade 6)Each journalist is part of
an editorial team which must research and |
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Myth Makers create your own modern myth in the style of one from ancient Greece. |
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News Writing Scholastic |
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Write a News Report about Flight Scholastic |
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Writing Topics Lists of ideas to serve as starting points for personal or journal writing. |
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How to Write a Book Review Scholastic |
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How to Write a Business Email (TV411) |
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Tall Tale About Talent Write and illustrate tall tales about characters with amazing talents. |
| Biography Writing | Descriptive Writing | Folktale Writing |
| Mystery Writing | Myth Writing | News Writing |
| Poetry Writing | Speech Writing | Writing a Book Review |
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Use this web 2.0 tool to present your biography! XTimeline (Find timelines of events, or easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.) |
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Biography Writer's Workshop Scholastic |
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Biography Maker takes students step-by- step through the stages of recreating a person's life |
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How to Write Your Autobiography (TV411) |
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ABC’s
of the Writing Process |
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Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources |
