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"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."

Bring the News to Life Would you like your students to browse newspapers from around the world? Would your students be interested in a kaleidoscopic reading of news reports? If you answered yes, then you should visit Today's Front Pages, which is run by the Newseum in Washington, D.C. As the name implies, Today's Front Pages provides daily access to newspapers all over the globe. There are three ways to read them: with the use of the gallery, list or map. In any of these three possibilities, the front pages may be sorted by geographical region. The site provides access to more than 800 front pages from 70 countries, updated daily. After choosing the newspaper you want to read, you can print the front page or open it in PDF format.