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School accounts allow video upload of vocabulary. Private.

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An appealing animation of animals which live on the farm. It is excellent for promoting language development. It has word banks so that the site can be used as a stimulus for a story or description of a setting.

Word Tamer is an interactive flash-based website where you "tame words and train stories" The site helps students create and develop new writing possibilities. All the ideas can be saved and printed off to be developed off-line. You can even print off certificates! The site contains different sections such as Wild Words, Prowl Through Plot, Capture a Character, Snare a Setting and Grapple With Genre. Each task is simple to get into and fun for children to play. Word Tamer is created by children's author Judy Waite and is born out of the creative writing workshops she delivers in schools.