Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language with VocabularySpellingCity's figurative language lessons, interactive games, printable worksheets, and powerpoint presentations.
Comic Life can be used for a multitude of reasons, including, but not limited to, the following:
Timelines (history, events, sequences)
Historical figures (history of, life of)
Instructions (step by step, details, illustrations, easy to follow)
Dialogue
Character analysis
Plot analysis
Digital storytelling
Pre-writing tool
Post-reading tool
World language (anything really!)
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Scratch is available free of charge.