Link: http://corndogart.com/

Writing Prompt Videos

Video writing prompts are engaging Story Starters for students who want to write more creatively.  Preview Corn Dog Art Story Starters and try it for yourself!

Writing Prompt Illustrations

Use art to engage students and inspire creative writing! Illustrations printed on laminated, quality card stock to ensure years of use.

Link: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/cube-creator-30850.html

The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity

Link: http://creately.com/

Visualize your writing by creating a diagram:

More than 50 types of diagrams

50+ types of diagrams with specialised features to help you draw faster and better.

Thousands of examples & libraries

Thousands of examples and comprehensive shape libraries. Visualize your ideas with amazing ease.

Link: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/

Graphic organizers for story elements, character analysis, and story maps and much more (printable). 

 Link: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.

The app highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.

Link: https://www.grammarly.com/

and wave good-bye to the most

frequent writing mistakes

100 points of grammar

Contextual Spellchecker

Punctuation checks

Works anywhere on the web

                   STEP 2       

Video on how to use the Read & Write App with Google Docs: https://youtu.be/f5b-IeRldUA

What's a storyboard?

 A storyboard contains a rough sketch representation of a story. 

It is essentially a timeline going from top to bottom, with the top occurring first.

Using a storyboard allows you to see what the scene will look like. 

The storyboard method is also generally thought to provide the best overview of a production.

This then that short storyboards Link:

http://www.storyboardthat.com/userboards/examples/this-then-that-short

National Novel Writing Month happens every November! It's a fun, seat-of-your-pants writing event where the challenge is to complete an entire novel in just 30 days. For one month, you get to lock away your inner editor, let your imagination take over, and just create!

That means participants begin writing November 1 and must finish by midnight, November 30. The word-count goal for our adult program is 50,000 words, but the Young Writers Program (YWP) allows 17-and-under participants to set reasonable, yet challenging, individual word-count goals.

Link: http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-does-nanowrimo-work-for-educators

Since the 2010-2011 school year, students in one of teacher April Kincaid’s classes at McCollough-Unis School in Dearborn, Mich., have been honing their skills as storytellers. They use writing, photography, video and audio to tell the stories of the people and events in their lives and around them. “The Living Textbook,” is a bridge that connects social studies and journalism. It is our hope that, whatever these students decide to do in school, this bridge will lead them to a future in which their voices and the voices of their generation are heard.

The students

You can meet the students through their “story of my name” project.

- See more at: http://livingtextbook.aaja.org/about/#sthash.KmDJQBjm.dpuf

Link: http://livingtextbook.aaja.org/

Link: http://www.pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/inspiring-writing/id6557255

Link: http://comments4kids.blogspot.com/

Bringing Authenticity to Blogging

Comments4Kids is a way for students and teachers to find blogs to comment on and to get their own posts commented on. It all started when Carey Pohanka, Derek Smith, and I had a conversation on Twitter about how to get people to comment on student posts. Here is a link to my post that explains what happened. Please note that Comments4Kids does not have to be on Wednesdays :)

Link: http://efl-resource.com/language-activities-with-wordle-and-word-clouds-2/

Language activities with Wordle and word clouds

Link: http://www.gettyimages.com/

Powerful photos and images that inspire writing. 

Link: https://tackk.com/googledocsquickcreate

Fantastically SIMPLE way to launch a Google App!

When you install this extension, it creates an extension icon in your Extension Bar that looks like the Google Drive icon.  When you click on it, a drop down menu appears, allowing you to select from a list of Google Apps. 

Link: http://padlet.com/shellyterrell/sandmessages

Write down messages you would leave in the sand. Why did you choose this message?