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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.

Mix and match yourself with human and animal parts. There is a writing lesson here..... Mix and match your cartoon character with favorite animal features. Could be used as an extension for fairy tale, myths and legends or folktales unit. (Descriptive writing, storytelling)

Writing tool for creating stories with a medieval them. Images are from the Bayeaux Tapestry. Stories can be emailed or stored in gallery. Also possible to capture pages and paste into powerpoint to print as a book.

Safe site for students to read and or write a book review.

Fun way to encourage student writing in any subject. Using a photo of of almost anything, coupled with imagination, students can create and record a talking animation.

Clean, simple site with narrated activities for colors, letters, numbers, words, keyboard, writing

Very nice tool for collaborative writing. Lots of great examples. Take the tour to see how easy it is to use. http://storybird.com/tour/

Great site for writing focusing on written storytelling and digital storytelling. Collaboration between Hub for Teachers and Discovery Education

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ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom. GREAT website!

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I'm not sure if this would be a useful resource or not. You decide! The unit illustrates different ways of organising information graphically and illustrates a range of "concept mapping" applications using examples created with Kidspiration. The unit is not a tutorial in how to use the software, as excellent tutorials are provided with the program. It is intended to stimulate interest and creativity by providing examples and links to websites where there are files that you can download for pupils to use.

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.