Writing Traits: Traits for Primary Writers... Our Nevada Print Guide and Teacher Workshops sharing materials from Northern Nevada's teacher inservices and print guides Hello, my name is Jodie Black , and I served as Co-Director of the Our Northern Nevada Writing Project is a healthy organization flourishing around the Reno/Sparks metropolitan area.
Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language-all while having fun.
Parkview & Fairview Library links to reading and writing resources.
District link to Literacy resources, professional development, and mentor text.
Link to Parkview & Fairview Elementary Web Tools Site.
Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember. Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling.
Little Bird Tales: Capture the Voice of Childhood. We offer a fun,unique way to create,record and share stories online. Kids can make drawings,upload photos or artwork and record their voice online,creating a slideshow format book,then share it with family and friends as gifts or a keepsake. Environmentally friendly and great for schools,too.
Free Online Story Book Platform for schools. Inspiring Lifelong Writers (K-12). Create, Publish, and Promote books you make at school.
Shutterfly Photo Story for Classrooms Our award-winning iPad app motivates and empowers students to create self-published books that demonstrate their knowledge. The program leverages your school's technology investment, supports project-based learning and provides lesson plans that align with Common Core or State Standards for each grade level.
PowToon is a brand new presentation tool that allows you to create animated presentations and cartoon style videos just by dragging and dropping.
PicLits.com is a creative writing and e-learning site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. It is a forum for creative writing, social interaction, and can also be used as a teaching tool. PicLits.com is fun, safe, sticky, proprietary, interactive, global...online EDUTAINMENT.
In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.
Collaboration has gone Google. Create a story and then share your video.
Adobe Voice-Show Your Story review and instructional ideas.
Create free educational games and tools in flash. Checkout the 3D Gallery and the Breaking News Generator.
All About Me Poem All I Want Animals Go to School "Big Day" Haiku Biography Bio-Poem Cinquain Color My World Dear... Diamond Explorer Profile Fear 5W's Go From First Line To Last Line Hello Spring Hold On Holiday Poem I Am... I Asked I Can't Write a Poem I Don't Understand...
Scholastic's Story Starters kids' writing activity generates creative writing prompts, from general fiction to adventure, fantasy, and science fiction.
Students work with authors and editors to develop writing skills. Favorite authors give tips and tricks for biography, descriptive writing, folktales, mystery, myths, journalism, poetry, speech writing, and book reviews. After going through the step by step process, kids can then publish their work online.
Flashlight Readers is an interactive literacy experience that lets readers enter the world of books and communicate with their favorite authors. Each of the highly-taught, popular titles offers community-building learning activities, author chats, and slideshows, all while encouraging essential reading and writing skills.
Students write reviews about recently read books and can also read recommendations submitted by other kids.
Time for Kids Home Work Helper A+ Papers features sample essays for Biography, Book Report, Compare & Contrast, How-To, Literary Essay, News Story, Personal Essay, and Persuasive Essay. They also provide an online writing form that can be saved to MS Word or printed from the site.
Book Creator is an app for iPads and Window (need Windows 10 to download), that lets you create books. Just add your text, images, video, music and
narration and use all of your content to tell the whole story.
Fry Words contains lists of the 1,000 most frequently used words in the English language. From its home screen, users are presented the Fry Words in groups. Each group contains 100 words, and each group is broken down into 10 lists. Free
Creative writing can be a daunting task for students who struggle to think of story ideas or who don't love the writing process. For kids who have trouble putting pen to paper, there are a handful of fantastic iPad apps that just might inspire them to tell a story.
