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ReadWriteThink - Student Interactives

This is an awesome place to find interactive resources that support writing.  It is literally loaded with with "Student Interactives."  The grade levels vary.  The categories covered include:

• Organizing & Summarizing (3 pages of sites)

• Inquiry & Analysis (7 sites)

• Writing Poetry (8 sites)

• Writing & Publishing Prose (2 pages)

• Learning About Language (10 sites)

All the activities you will be guided to are online interactives and designed to help motivate the child.  Some of the activities might be geared more towards teachers, but can easily be adjusted for home use. 

News Paper Clipping Generator

Choose from quite a few snippet templates—news article, talking tomatoes, talking squirrels, ninja text writer, and several others. You choose the format, insert the “talking” text, and then generate! After you like your creation, it can be downloaded onto your hard drive, into a blog, or on your classroom web page.

Get the Scoop

Learn how to write a news article and “publish” it on this site. Grades 3-5 (or intervention 6-8)

Scholastic Poetry Engine

Five different kinds of poetry are generated with student assistance. 

Story Bird

Your words. Our art. Amazing stories.

Simple tools help you build books in minutes. Let the art inspire and surprise you as you write. Readers will encourage you along the way.

Bubbl.us

This is a very nice resource that is similar to a long time popular program called Kidspiration; however, Bubbl.us has a limited free version that allows you to generate up to the three mindmaps.  Mindmaps are usually made within 'bubbles' which is why the site is call bubbl.us.  A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas.

Witty Comics

Witty Comics is free of charge and is very easy to use. It has a simple platform that any one can handle , the only thing you need to do is to register with them and start making comics right away. Pre-drawn background scenes and characters are already provided and students will only select the ones they want to feature in their comics.  Students can create their own text.

Write Comics

No log-in, no email. Just go to this site and create a comic by choosing background, characters, and talk/thought bubbles. Use this to teach such elements as transitions, sequence, figures of speech— pretty much anything for fiction. It's a very basic, but fun writing opportunity.