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Writing Prompt Generators

Writing Process

Publishing Writing

Providing Feedback for Students

Writing with Emojis & Images

Writing Prompt Generators

Random Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets When our students go to write a poem or story or other creative work, a blank page can be both exciting (with so much potential) and i...

Emoji Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets In an earlier blog post, I shared a “ Google Sheets Writing Prompt Generator ” that randomly combined nouns and adjectives to give student...

Writing Process

Publishing Writing

Why and How to Share Student Writing with the World What motivates students to write? Better yet, what motivates them to rewrite and edit and work to improve what they have created? Certai...

Make Student Writing Known: Publish • TechNotes BlogWriting is a critical life skill for everyone. Learn ways to publish student writing and promote engagement in this blog.

Google Slides for Student Created Storybooks We all know of Google Slides as Google’s version of Microsoft PowerPoint. It is a great online tool for creating and sharing multimedi...

Storybook Template

Creating Comic Strips with Google SlidesGoogle Slides Strips with Creating Comic Eric Curts ericcurts.com - ericcurts@gmail.com @ericcurts - gplus.to/ericcurts Session Resources: tiny.cc/curts19

Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs For a long time I have shared resources on how students can create “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories using Google Slides . However, thes...

Boom Writer Tutorials

Boom Writer Tools / Options

Story Jumper Teacher's Guide

Story Jumper Example Book

Book Creator - bring creativity to your classroom - Book Creator appBook Creator - bring creativity to your classroom. A simple way to make digital books online - on Chromebooks, PCs, iPads or tablets. Create. Read. Publish.

Book Creator Video Tutorial

Book Creator How-To Book

Adobe Spark for EducationAdobe Spark is the perfect free educational tool to bring creativity into the classroom. Students can easily create reports, presentations, posters, and more.

Note: If you are planning to use Adobe Spark with your students, please reach out to your DLC so that we can make sure your students are enrolled in our district's account program. (This process does take some time, so the sooner you can let us know, the better!)

Example: Use Adobe Spark Page to Publish Writing using Multimedia

Vocabulary

Flashcard Factory — Pear DeckFlashcard Factory was designed to transform the way students engage with vocabulary in the classroom. With Flashcard Factory, students work together to create dynamic and engaging flashcards with sentences and illustrations that help increase learning and retention.

You can create your. own vocabulary quiz games using the following platforms:

If you are looking for a paid program for even more vocabulary tracking, I would recommend checking out Vocabulary.com's Educator Edition.

Providing Feedback for Students

Four Fantastic Feedback Tools for Google Docs In the past when a student turned in the paper copy of their essay, story, report, or project, it was common for their teacher to pull out...

Feedback Tools for Google DocsGoogle Docs Tools for Feedback Eric Curts ericcurts.com - ericcurts@gmail.com @ericcurts / +EricCurts1 www.ControlAltAchieve.com/docsfeedback

Writing with Emojis & Images

5 Emoji Learning Activities with Google Docs A while back I did a blog post on the "Emoji Random Writing Prompt Generator" I had created with Google Sheets. Basically the sheet random...

Build a Snowman with Google Slides Do you want to build a snowman? Well now you can with this fun, and educational, Google Slides activity. This is a great way for student...

Poetry

Black Out Poetry with Google Docs March 21st is World Poetry Day , so this is a good time to revisit some ideas for creative ways for students to write poems. In the past...

Wintertime Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings Magnetic poetry kits have been around since the early 90’s, providing children and adults with inspiration to create poems on refrigerato...

Valentines Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings Valentine's Day is just a couple weeks away, so what better time to have your students work on their creative writing skills with a Vale...

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