"Teaching conventions can become somewhat dry. Try using
interactive online games instead. After making a simple Google search, I found a
couple your students might enjoy playing. In
Power
Proofreading
, students act as
proofreading technicians to fix TV scripts, memos, and other writings for a
television station. Then there's
Punctuation
Paintball
, a creative way for
children to learn many of the rules of basic punctuation and
capitalization.
Schoolhouse Rock! - No explanation needed... I hope. This is
a perfect place to integrate music with writing. Have fun and visit
Schoolhouserock.tv
to links to YouTube videos and
lyrics.
Presentation
A
Finished Look -
Have students be proud of
their paper. Neatness counts!
An Interesting Look - I can't leave the following resource
out. Maybe it doesn't fit here, or maybe it does. However, you just have to give
Wordle
a try. Wordle creates beautiful word clouds. Simply copy and
paste a story into the text box and Wordle will do the rest. The more a word was
used, the more prominently it is displayed in the
cloud."