This document provides tips and tools to inspire writing. It includes links to websites for graphic organizers, storyboarding, mind mapping, creating word clouds and digital stories. Tips include using music, creating a safe writing environment, chain stories, daily writing journals and assessing projects with rubrics. The overall message is to provide resources and strategies to motivate students to write.
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2. Motivated to
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Tips & Tools to Inspire
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3. “The pages are still blank,
but there is a miraculous
feeling of the words being
there, written in invisible ink
and clamoring to become
visible.”
~Vladimir Nabakov
36. Once upon
a time...
Chain And the
Story bird…
…The
End!
37.
38. Activity: Create a Group Story
•Get into small groups
•Find a cell phone with a
voice recorder
•Record your chain story
•Email to
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51. Character
ZooBurst.com
Texts
•Students can upload their pics or choose from a variety of
characters & backgrounds
•Can narrate with text
•Embeddable
•Interact with a book using Augmented Reality
•Free iPad app with QR Code Scans
52. UTellStory.com
•Create a digital story
with photos, video,
voice, music & words
•Embeddable
53. Character
LittleBirdTales.Com Texts
•Students can upload
their pics or choose
from a variety of
characters &
backgrounds or draw
on the pages
•Can narrate with text
& audio
•Embeddable
•Paid app
http://mail.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/95599/
54. Biteslide.com
•slidebooks
with images,
videos, text
•Embeddable
& can
download
T Chart is used for listing out two different viewpoints of the same topic. For ex. The pros and cons of Online Education, the benefits and drawbacks of Social Media, and so on.
Fishbone diagram is generally used to identify the cause and effect of any given situation.
Unfortunately most classroom designed supports the teacher as the wise one from when we first enter schools.
Unfortunately most classroom designed supports the teacher as the wise one from when we first enter schools.
Has to be mapped out and be specific with the statements!
Unfortunately most classroom designed supports the teacher as the wise one from when we first enter schools.
http://Lessonstream.org
http://Plinky.com
http://Whatmakesme.com.au
http://Storyit.com
http://Smories.com
http://5card.cogdogblog.comYou are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures”.