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Revising and Editing
As teachers we sometimes forget that students often do not understand what we mean when we ask them to edit. It is interesting when you ask them, their responses are often all related to fixing spelling and punctuation. They seem focused on editing for Conventions. Students have to be shown how to edit for […]
Using iMovie to Capture a Poem
Students can use iMovie to demonstrate their understanding of a poem. Here is a Spring Poem: The BluebirdPoem Students will find images and audio which capture the essence of the poem and record themselves reading the poem. Here are the iMovie Instructions: imovie8greenscreen imovieHD
Using Word Clouds
Word Clouds have been out there for several years. Students input text into generator and then create a visual cloud of their words. The larger the text, the more it is used in the document. Get your students to use them creatively in the classroom! Here are several ways: Create a Concrete Poem Narrow ideas […]
Fairy Tale Writing: Fractured Fairy Tales
Brainstorm Characteristics of Fairy Tale: Beginning, Ending, Setting, Characters, Problems etc. Decide on a fairy tale to write a parody on (try your favourite or least favourite) Reread the fairy tale in order to become an expert on the events Research to become familiar: http://lswhs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/lmclsw/Teacher%20Projects/fairytales.htm Draft Story using Inspirations Change one of the literary elements: Point […]
Creating a Podcast from a Newscast Script
This activity has students create a script for a fictional newscast. Their newstory will be an interview of one of the characters in this image. sited: http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/post/45107797993/714-motorcycle-escape Plan/write your script Introduce your news story with a Jingle. Newscaster introduces himself. Interview one of the characters. Remember to have your newscaster ask questions which tell […]
Fairy Tale Writing and Fables
Telia the Monkey With the popular explosion of Fairy Tales in Entertainment, students are becoming more familiar with classic fairy tales. All fairy tales and fables revolve around a moral or a lesson. Using these classic examples, a variety of story writing activities can be generated. Fractured Fairy Tales A story that uses fairy tale […]
Procedural Writing and iMovie
A quick way to introduce students to using iMovie is to have them create a “How to Video” on something they know how to do. Students will need to create a script for their writing and gather photos and sound effects they could use. Here is instructions for using iMovie on Macbook imovie8greenscreen Here is […]
iPad Introduction
This is for teachers k-12 as a quick overview for using the iPad in the classroom. It includes some recommended apps. ipadintroduction
Using Comic Life
One of the best ways to engage your students in a story writing dialogue activity, is to use Comic Life. What better way is there to show how writing dialogue needs to appropriate, clear and effective? If their characters’ dialogue does not drive the plot, then the audience cannot follow their story. Several of the WWP teachers […]