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An English resource that takes students through writing four different types of poetry. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

The Poetry Archive, as the name suggests, is a bank of poetry and information about poets. A great resource for teachers and students alike. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Magnetic Poetry online - after the site loads, wait for the "Next" button to appear in the bottom right corner. You can enter the words you want to use for the poetry and choose different backgrounds/grids, including Venn diagram.

Acrostic poetry writing activity

A great interactive acrostic poem maker. It explains what acrostic poems are when gives helpful hints as children write their own. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Great collection of resources. I think this would be a great resource for Thowell

English Website

A useful and fun set of cross-curriculum photo slide shows for maths, English, science, history and more. They are arranged by age and range from kindergarten Secondary school. A great resource for introducing topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

Would love colleagues' thoughts and input on this lesson!

Thanks Irene! The students did such an amazing job. You really don't have to be tech-saavy to employ this in your classroom. The software is already so user-friendly. The person who taught me how to do this was an English teacher - she would use it with poetry, so that students would have to emphasize emotion in their reading. Very effective!

Jennifer, this is wonderful! I love how you give your students choices of which app to use and how you place the onus on them to learn it and to troubleshoot on their own. This is something that I teach in my computer classes because students have to acquire and feel comfortable with that skill. Thanks!

"A superb creative writing site to stimulate ideas for opinion pieces, news articles, stories or poems. There is a teachers area with whole class whiteboard resources, and a pupil area where your pupils can write their pieces and print."

"This graphic organizer provides students the opportunity to brainstorm words about a given topic, count and record the syllables, and draft a haiku. "

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