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This page is dedicated to providing resources for k-12 classroom teachers looking to enrich their students opportunities in Writing.
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Differentiation Ideas for Students
Connect to epals- allowing the students to have writing pals with students abroad.
Write a Book Review: Students write Book Reviews on Google Docs, generate a QR code and post it on Seesaw, draw a picture of their representation of the book and paste the QR code somewhere on the picture. Book review illustrations are bound in a class book, which students and parents can view, then scan codes to read the reviews.
21 Clever Writing Prompts That Will Unleash Your Students’ Creativity
Letters About Literature: This is a contest run through the Library of Congress every year, but my students have taken advantage of the idea to write letters to authors of their books in hopes of getting a response.
What's Going on in this picture? Pictures taken from the NY Times, without a caption, and a moderated conversation about the image, with related articles. Updated weekly.
What's Going on in this Graph? Graphs, maps and charts from The New York Times -- and an invitation to students to discuss them live.
Is a picture really worth 1000 words (about 2 pages)? Have your students prove it. Use one of these sites (National Geographic, NASA, CNN Photos, Sport photos, Pobble 365, New York Times) to post a thought provoking image of science, nature, current events, art, machinery, cultures, or daily life for a writing prompt.
Building Deeper Readers and Writers - Kelly Gallagher
Project Based Learning Resources
News They Can Use: Check out digital-age citizen journalism projects at Blog post and ideas on Student Journalism projects
Tools for Students and Teachers
FlipGrid - Empower Student Voice with this tool, while they capture short videos to share ideas with classmates on topics you define.
RecapThat - A free student response and reflection app to allow parents and teachers insight on how students learn and think.
Movenote - Narrate an existing Powerpoint or Google presentation to document directions or to present and reflect.
Explain Everything - Collaborative and Interactive White Board
Nearpod - Interactive Lesson plan tool for sharing and collaborating in groups
Padlet - collaborative resource for students and teachers
GoogleKeep - Project Management tool for teachers and students
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