Writing Resources
Interactive websites for every subject and grade level. This is an awesome site with numerous activities! Take some time to look through it and see what you can use!
Writing Prompts- Narrative and Expository
Spelling City has several games that the students can play. You can also create spelling lists to practice.
Storybird – This website allows students to choose from a variety of art sets and use the images to create online storybooks.
Story Starters gives the students 4 story starter themes and then several different starters from that point. Students can download their final product or print it right away.
There are several writing contests for students to enter. Click here for some of those online writing contests that students can enter and even win prizes! A great way to motivate your students to do their best writing!
Edgalaxy has numerous resources for different levels and different subjects. This will link you to the literacy section of the website. When you choose a topic, scroll down and it will show you books you can buy on amazon to help you teach that concept. If you scroll even further, there is a powerpoint style lesson that you can go through right on that screen.
Google Storybuilder is a great tool where students can write a story from the perspective of different characters. You can list your characters and then show where the different characters take over talking. Once you are finished, you can add music and share it with anyone you want.
Similar to the story starters website where students can create a comic strip out of their story. They can print or download their finished product when they are done.
Storyboard That allows you to create a comic strip with several options to make changes and edits. It does cost about $6 a month, but they do have a free trial to let you try it out for free.
Edublogs – This website allows you to set up student blogs for free if you set each one up individually.
Kidblog - Simillar to Edublogs, Kidblog allows you to create a blog for each student, but the blogs are not available to the public. Instead, you have a class space, and only students from their class can provide comments on student blogs. This provides more security, but less flexibility when it comes to sharing student work.
Little Write Brain – Like storybird and story jumper, Little Write Brain allows students to create online storybooks. However, Little Write Brain allows students to create characters, and gives them multiple “starter stories” that they can then add on to.
Read Write Think – Read Write Think has many printables that teachers use to help students organize writing, but they also have a great resource called Student Interactives. These interactives provide students with interactive organizational tools for various types of writing, including biographies, comparing and contrasting and even poetry. Using these interactives before writing can help students to organize their thoughts.
Chogger lets you create comics where you can draw your own pictures and write captions for your pictures.
This is a very crafty website. All of the activities are going to take a while to complete, so maybe more of something you want to do with your own kids at home. Some great ideas, but they take a while!
Witty Comics help students create comics out of their stories. It gives them preset backgrounds and characters that the student drops into their scene. Then they just add the captions.