Group items tagged

16/08/2011 - An idea for the start of the year / writing in role as a fictional character.

16/08/2011 - Silly / daft images of people in odd situations, many of which could be used to stimulate writing or drama.

29/08/2011 - Superb idea!  Mark Warner (Teaching Ideas) has created a repository of inspiring ideas linked to a growing range of popular and engaging books. There are suggestions for English, together with plenty of cross-curricular links. Great stuff.

18/09/2011 - "The sun is high and hot. Impossible rock sculptures tower over the desert floor, casting short purple shadows on the scrub and cacti. An insect chirps. A trail of speeding smoke appears at the horizon, tearing along the highway with reckless abandon. If we were to take a very fast exposure of the dust cloud as it blasts by, we might get a blurred snapshot of a giant RoadRunner (runforrestus run). Shaking her blue crest, quoth she: "Beep-beep." Brilliant!

18/09/2011 - Great series of photographs, ideal for adding text / drama such as freeze frame or mime.

07/10/2011 - Some stunning visuals for setting and description.