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Create-a-Story By Craig Gill Age Range: 7 to 11 This resource can be used to help children who may lack ideas during creative writing lessons. It consists of four charts, which contain 81 characters, 81 places, 81 situations and 81 objects. WARNING - some of them are a little gruesome! Tools for Creating, Hosting, and Printing Infographics About a week I was asked if I could write a post about tools for making infographics with students. A well constructed infographic can convey a lot of information in a compact, visually-pleasing manner. The process of creating a good infographic requires students to analyze and succinctly summarize data and facts that they've gathered through research. Here are some good tools that students can use to create infographics.

Meme2 The Fastest Meme Generator on the Planet. Easily add text to images or memes. ← Transparency color. Alpha: Computational Intelligence Google Search Operators: The Complete List (42 Advanced Operators) For anyone that’s been doing SEO for a while, Google advanced search operators—i.e., special commands that make regular ol’ searches seem laughably basic in comparison—are nothing new. Here’s a Google search operator you may be familiar with. the “site:” operator restricts results to only those from a specified site. It’s easy to remember most search operators. They’re short commands that stick in the mind. But knowing how to use them effectively is an altogether different story. Theme Poems In this online tool, elementary students can write poems based on shapes from five different categories: Nature, School, Sports, Celebrations, and Shapes. Within these categories, 32 different shapes are included. By selecting a shape, students are learning how to focus their writing on a particular topic or theme. In addition, as part of the online tool, students are prompted to brainstorm, write, and revise their poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process.

A Range of Free, Downloadable, Writing Templates – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS I’ve made some writing frames, which are completely free to download (just right click and ‘save image as’, or find high quality PDFs by clicking this link). I hope they are useful 1) Narrow lined paper template: 2) Medium lined paper template: 3) Postcard writing template: 4) Recount writing template:

Created equal – Contrasts of Life, Beautiful photography project by Mark Laita “Created Equal” is an amazing photo project of photographer Mark Laita that focuses on the contrasts between people, the lives and cultures through beautiful portraits in black and white. Teach English Writing: Videos Write Story Summaries Writing Skills: idea, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, organisation Short videos with interesting plots make great prompts for an ESL writing class. Here are 5 videos which can help students learn English writing skills. What makes a good video prompt? I look for four features when choosing a video for the writing class.

Teenagers: Writing: Dictogloss An activity with a focus on communicating meaning and using correct grammar. This is a type of dictation, but I find my students don’t groan when we do it like this! Choose an interesting or amusing passage, with grammar and vocabulary items that your students are quite familiar with. Some unknown vocabulary is actually good, as they need to try to make sense of the ‘whole’ meaning.Read the passage out at normal speed twice. The first time students just listen, the second time they can make notes.In pairs or small groups, students have to share what they remember and attempt to write a version of the passage that remains true to the original’s meaning and has correct grammar, but does not have to be exactly the same.

200+ Short Story Ideas… And How to Come Up With Your Own! We get it: writing prompts are an excellent resource, but you want to know how to come up with your own story ideas. Here are four of our go-to tricks when thinking of interesting things to write about. 1) People-watch: Hands down, this our favourite way to come up with story ideas. All stories, even ones about robots or plants, have some element of humanity at its core.

Writing Prompts/Journal Topics What is… What is something you dislike about yourself?What is something you do well?What is your favourite room in your home and why?What is a good neighbour?What is the worst thing parents can do to their children?