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Make it Real - Give them a Reason to Write! Jonathan Alcorn for The New York Times Update | Feb. 7: We have announced our student editorial-writing contest and published a related lesson plan. What issues do you care most about? What topics do you find yourself discussing most passionately, whether online, at the dinner table, in the classroom or with your friends?

"The Word Cloud feature enables you to use Word Banks or selected text to create and display word lists or "clouds" for use when writing, filling in worksheets, or taking tests."

The Word Cloud feature enables you to use Word Banks or selected text to create and display word lists or "clouds" for use when writing, filling in worksheets, or taking tests. Students can use these as prompts or to have key vocabulary words at the ready when writing an essay on a specific topic. Teachers can use this feature for fill in the blank vocabulary worksheets or use to instruct students to use particular vocabulary words when writiing an essay. 

"Into The Book: Behind the Lesson | Making Connections"

How to video to create Make Beliefs Comix

Invite students to create their own hero. Then use that hero to inspire appropriate behavior, as a writing prompt, or more!

HeroMachine lets you unlock your inner artist, enabling you to create professional-looking illustrations even if you can't draw a straight line. Just choose a pose, then pick a set and genre of items and click to add them.

These script cards provide prompt hierarchies and response strategies for teaching basic core vocabulary words.

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like. In addition to the writing prompts tools StoryToolz offers a few tools to help you edit your work. The Cliché Buster analyzes your work to find clichés that you have used in your writing. The Readability tool analyzes your text to estimate a reading level on several scales.

for older students

Invite students or educators to create their own superhero as a writing prompt or as a behavior strategy (What Would Your Hero Do?)

Use this site to create engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Welcome to Book Builder! Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

This program is designed to be a fun way to develop your children's early literacy skills as you read story books with them. In the books For Children, you will find coaches, Pedro, Hali, and Monty who give ideas of how to talk with children about the books. In the books For Teachers and Parents, there is also another coach named Terry, who talks about literacy development and suggests fun activities to do with children.

Great resources and activities and prompts in helping children read!

This app is for teachers and parents to search for content specific online teaching resources aligned with Universal Design for Learning. Users can complete a "Class Profile" narrowing the resources by content, grade level and topic. When prompted, questions in the profile tool narrow the search further by asking questions aligned with UDL.

Online resume generator for students provides structured step by step prompts with fill in the blank and checkbox fields.