Writing

Writing Ideas with technology
> [|Instant Poetry Forms] Instant Poetry Forms consists of more than sixty interactive literacy activities. Students can point, click and add words to the frame of a poem. With a quick click on the button below the form, the writer's words are magically added, completing each line. At that point, poets are invited to export their draft into a word processor for further revision and editing. An interactive poetry form finder on the website categorizes the forms by topic (or language skill). > **[|Poetry Writing Unit]:** Lessons with examples. Scroll down to the middle of the page to see the lessons. > **[|PBS Poetry Site]:** Videos and reading of poets > **[|Shel Silverstein]** Create poems similar to Shel's and download a poetry kit > **Read Write Think**: K-12. Comprehensive literature and writing site [|http://www.readwritethink.org] > **//The Material Index//** of R.W.T.is a great collection of Flash-based, interactive activities target literacy skills for all grades. Some of the dozensof tools include: //Bio-Cube// for writing interesting biographies, //Circle Plot Diagram,// a story planner//, Comic Creator// for creating comic strips, //Literary Elements Map,// students can map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution, //Literary Graffiti//, aims to teach students to visualize what they are reading to help them develop as readers. //Fractured Fairy Tale Creator//, //Eye on Idioms//, //Essay Map//, and much more!!! http://readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp > **[|Tag Crowd]**TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a [|tag cloud] or text cloud. > **Kerpoof** > Create Interactive stories and movies. Simple to learn. [|http://www.kerpoof.com] **Create a Book** Create an electronic book that can also be printed. [|http://bookbuilder.cast.org/> >] > **Research Paper Organizer**    Interactive guide to planning, researching, and writing a research paper. http://library.sasaustin.org/sasaustin/library/paperOrganizerUS.php > **NoteStar**    NoteStar is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page. http://notestar.4teachers.org/> > **PersuadeStar**  This free online application is designed to help students in grades 5-12 write an online persuasive essay. [|http://persuadestar.4teachers.or] **Think Tank** Think Tank is designed to help students develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects. Based on the subject assigned, the students can refine it by choosing from a variety of suggestions and by using a random subtopic generator. This helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research. http://thinktank.4teachers.org/ **iAdventures**[|> http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/iadventure/index.html]  An iAdventure is a problem solving activity in which students determine the direction and outcome of a content-rich storyline, using resources available on the Internet, particularly resources providing real-world data and primary documents   **Story Creator** > A unique story making tool, a sound and picture gallery, and a timeline to place the stories in their historic context. http://myths.e2bn.net/create/tool527-new--story-creator-2--beta.htm > **Toon Doo** > Create comic strips with clip art and speech bubbles http://www.toondoo.com/ > **Can I Have a Word?**[|> http://www.barbican.org.uk/canihaveaword/] > This site won the education Webby award, contains projects that include readings by British poets, visual components, and lesson plans for expanding the creative writing of students > **Kid Publications:** K-5. Children can publish their own stories, read other children's stories, and collaboratively write stories. [|http://kidpub.com/kidpub/] > [|**Blurb**>]A service that helps you to create, publish, and purchase your own custom book. You can create a cookbook, a photobook, or even turn your blog into a book. You have to download “booksmart”, which is the software that helps you to make a book.[|> **Our Story**] Designed for families to record a time line of events in their lives, this online tool serves the classroom teacher as an electronic time line for a collection of "stories." Each event on the "playable" timeline is a "story."[|> **Lulu**] > Book publishing for a fee. **Kid Authors:** K -8. Children can publish their own stories and read other young authors. [|http://kidauthors.com/default.asp] > **The Newspaper Clipping Generator**[|> http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp] > Helps students summarize articles. Students take an article or a blog post and make decisions as to what to include, what to delete, and what to substitue in order to summarize. > **Talking Cats Generator** > Create a slideshow dialogue with speech bubbles. There are also links to a squirrel, an owl, a tomato, and a flower generator on this page that can be used as well. This gives students another choice! http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/talking_cat.asp > **Writing Fix** > Interactive writing prompts. http://www.writingfix.com/ > **NoodleTools** (bibliography generator and search advice) [|http://www.NoodleTools.com/] > **Citation Machine** http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/index.php3 > **Thesis Generator** http://mciu.org/%7Espjvweb/thesisgenerator.html > **A+ Research and Writing** A step-by-step guide for research and writing "help site" for high school students. http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/ > **Guide to Grammar and Writing** Suggestions, examples, quizzes, and links to help the writing process. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ > **Every-Day Edit** > Use Every-Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy with students in grades 4 and above.http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml > **Teaching Effective Peer-Editing Strategies** > In this lesson, students use a three-step peer-editing process that consists of compliments, suggestions, and corrections.[| http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=786] > **Write On: Editing Activities** > Develop the structural and creative skills necessary to produce written language that can be read and interpreted by various audiences. http://208.183.128.3/write/editing.html > **The Goofs** > Features an extensive collectrion of online and downloadable editing activities.http://jc-schools.net/write/goofs/ > **Glencoe Online: Proofreading Practice** > Practice correcting passages online for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage. > Grades 6-8:http://www.glencoe.com/sec/writerschoice/pp/mslessons/grade6/index.shtml > Grades 9-12:http://www.glencoe.com/sec/writerschoice/pp/hslessons/grade9/index.shtml > **Proofreading & Editing Tips** > A compilation of advice from experienced proofreaders and editors.http://www.lrcom.com/tips/proofreading_editing.htm
 * 1) Expanded sentences
 * 2) Poetry Line Breaks
 * 3) Thematic newspaper and brochure
 * 4) Templates, e.g., copy a poem or story and leave out the imagery, figures of speech for the students to fill in.
 * 5) Web sites