Writing

Using Youtube videos as motivation for writing ===Creative Writing #7: Use YouTube stories to inspire your class to write... ===

 There are many ways to get your class to write stories. This idea is to use YouTube videos to inspire writing. You could use these in different ways such as: [|Writing, Reading, Creating, Learning] - Ideas / Resources (debate, science ideas, effective writing and more)
 * Talk about the structure of a story in terms that your age group understands
 * Show a video and then discuss the structure of the story or analyse the stages of a story
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The Great White Man Eating Shark Teaser - Show the video clip as an inspiration for writing. THE GREAT WHITE MAN-EATING SHARK (By Margaret Mahy, Illustrated by Jonathon Allen): Norvin a boy who closely resembles a shark uses his talents to scare away all the swimmers at Caramel Cove except for one female shark in love.

Criminally Good Writing -There are two ways to get good at something. You can study it and do it, or you can //do // it and do it. What am I talking about? In this ‘case’, learning how to create a piece of crime fiction (a crime scene investigation) by // exploring // crime scenes.

Writing Prompts - =[|Join us in a bold new experiment with storytelling] =

Writing Inspirations

Build Reading and Writing Skills with Music- visualize mind-pictures, feel feelings, conjure up thoughts and learn to //translate // them into words.

[|eAuthors]-Where young writers share their eWritings. Write your adventure, illustrate (Paint), upload to slideshare and embed. Hey presto - authors

[|Capture a character - with Word Tamer]

[|Boom Writer]- Be a real author, Write your own chapters, vote on other author's chapters. Get published.

A resource kit for teaching persuasive writing though a fairytale context - exploring word types, word associations, getting emotive, complex sentences, identifying arguments, text structure, convincing an audience

[|100 Word Challenge] - What can you do with these words in a 100 words

[|Writing Fun] - <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">gives instructions, exemplars from level 1 - 6 and guidelines, highlights verb tense, descriptive words, etc.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">[|Storyplant]- create your own story and watch it grow.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">[|Writing Prompts] - Have a look at these images for writing. Or maybe, start your own collection

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">[|Ideas to Inspire] - **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'Ideas to Inspire' **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">[|Cool Writing Tools 1]

Cool Writing Tools 2

[| Cool Writing Tools 3]

[| Cool Writing Tools 4]

[| Cleaning your teeth] - procedural writing by a year 3

Argument Writing - graphics organisers, presentatations, templates and assessment

[|Persuasive Writing] - In persuasive writing, a writer takes a position FOR or AGAINST an issue and writes to convince the reader to believe or do something.

[|Persuasion Map] - a graphic organiser to frame your writing

[|Persuasive Writing] - a collection of ideas and resources to use for teaching persuasive writing

[|Persuasive Text] - A Livebinder folder with interactive links, resources, videos and more

[|The Story Starter] - The Story Starter provides 1,007,240,080 creative ideas and writer prompts for writers of all ages. All of the story starters are randomly created. This idea generator can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> [|10 Digital Writing Opportunities you probably know and 10 you probably don't]

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">[|Procedural Writing] - video - check you write clear instructions for someone to follow. What could go wrong?

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">[|Story Jumper] - A place to create and find stories for kids

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">[|Is your writing process this much fun?]- <span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.6667px; line-height: 25px;">Teaching students to prewrite, write, and rewrite is a challenge. Much like asking gifted students to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; color: #b60600; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|show their work in math], process writing is frustrating for gifted students who work intuitively. However, what better motivation is there than the chance to point out someone else’s errors AND be rewarded for it?

ReadWriteThink <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Flipbook interactive - take notes, make picture books, create question and answer booklets

Scholastic Interactive Story Starters - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Write online by spinning wheels!

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; padding-right: 10px;"> Super Sentence Machine - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Click a book and..begin!

1,000 Ideas for Writing - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">A topic sentence to help you write!

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Fill-in stories - Add speech parts and generate the story!

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Character writing - Choose a character (picture) and write on!

KeerPoof - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Write a card, tell a story and many more!

Writing Fun - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Examples and step by step instructions

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; padding-right: 10px;"> Create your own <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">superhero and ...start writing his adventures!

Use FuzzMail to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">write an e- mail to a character, to the author, to your future self etc.

ReadWriteThink- Write <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">a letter using this interactive

ReadWriteThink - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Stapless Book : create an eight-page folding book (take notes, make picture books etc)