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Fun Writing Games for Kids

Check out these fun writing games for kids. Enjoy a range of free activities, resources and practice exercises related to writing letters, stories, newspapers, debates, advertising and instructions.

The games are perfect for challenging students who enjoy interactive learning online. Find a topic that suits you and improve your English by completing as many of the educational challenges as you can.

http://www.funenglishgames.com/writinggames.html

Check out Dynamic Curriculum

http://jc-schools.net/dynamic/index.html

The Story Starter randomly generates 1,862,718,000 story starters. This idea generator can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun.
http://thestorystarter.com/?THEBIGDEALBOOK=634646271071187500

Go Graphic!
Comic Master, brought to you by Reading for Life in the UK, allows students to create their own short graphic novels. The Teachers section of the site explores how graphic novels work to help students become familiar with the medium and develop an understanding of the complexity of it.
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Click Here to Access Free Teachers Resources

 

Get into the Action
On the ZimmerTwins website, students can choose from various characters, type in the dialogue, choose their background scene and create a fun movie. Students can choose from the “starter” prompts and then decide how they want to continue the story, or they can create a storyline from scratch. An animated tutorial helps students learn how to make a movie.
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Add some Life to your Text!!!   Works great on your PPT or Activinspire Software

Write your own message on Bart Simpson's famous chalkboard! The message will be repeated over and over again just like the show

http://www.addletters.com/pictures/bart-simpson-generator/2206735.htm


Glitterfy your Text
http://www.glitterfy.com/glitter-words.php

Bloom's Taxonomy Posters

http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/23376/Blooming-Orange-Bloom-s-Taxonomy-Helpful-Verbs-Poster

Blooming Butterfly

http://blog.learningtoday.com/Default.aspx?app=LeadgenDownload&shortpath=docs%2fbloomsposterv4.pdf

Bloom's Tree

Myths and Legends

This site offers a completely free, extremely visual, incredibly simple, multi-media rich digital storytelling development environment that is perfect for students of all ages. Its intuitive user interface is packed with features. Take a look:

You’ve got characters and objects, the ability to upload images, text bubbles, scale, rotation & front/back controls, storyboard support, sound effects, and up to 10 “chapters” (pages) per story. There are many, many provided shapes, backgrounds and images. The site loads and responds quickly. It just WORKS! Although it is geared specifically for British myths and legends in terms of content, it could EASILY be used for MANY different subects. Their Teachers Resources section is organized for specific myths and legends but you will quickly see applications for your classroom and curriculum.  If you register your school you will  have the ability to manage class logins and review and approve student work. Brilliant! Check out “Myths and Legends Story Creator 2” today!

Check out some of the student's work....  

Mrs. Kidwell's class :  https://sites.google.com/a/ccpsweb.org/ckidwell/myths-and-legends

Ms. McDaniel's class:       https://sites.google.com/a/ccpsweb.org/mcdaniel/home/legends

 Fotobabble, create a talking photo.  This free tool  lets users use a photo and make a one minute recording to accompany it. 

The main drawback to it, of course, is that it’s been limited to a one minute recording.

Today, though, Fotobabble announced the ability to string together Fotobabbles in order to create a slideshow. 

 Students could take pictures, or find creative commons images that illustrate vocabulary that they are learning and record themselves saying the definition and using the word in a sentence.  Students could collect and tradeFotobabble vocabulary with other students in the class and embed them in a blog or wiki to create their own visual talking dictionary.  If you teach students younger than 13, have teachers or parent helpers build audio visual dictionaries that can be added to throughout the year.  How neat would it be to have a talking, visual word wall?!  This would be helpful for math, science, social studies, history, and regular vocabulary words that students learn.

Poll Anywhere

Use your cell phones as a student response center. 

Why use Poll Everywhere?

• Increase classroom participation and attentiveness
• Encourage risk-taking with anonymous student responses
• Elicit diverse opinions when there isn't a correct answer
• Expose social misconceptions
• Gauge student comprehension of material immediately
• Grab students with thought-provoking opening questions
• Allow students to provide instructor feedback
• Automate taking attendance
• Assess last night's reading with a quick quiz
• Strengthen retention
• Utilize its capabilities outside the classroom for professional development, student-run presentations, talent shows, battle of the bands, company presentations, student government, or community forums.

Poll Everywhere is free for classes with up to 32 students per section. Sign up now (K-12 or Higher Ed) or read on to learn why Poll Everywhere is great for educators