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WRITING |
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The place to get ideas for writing, practice the writing process, and learn the grammar tips and tricks that will make your writing shine.
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Learn how to write from acclaimed authors. Separated into categories such as News, Poetry, Journal Writing, and others.
Grades 3 and up.
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Hover over the words - Read, Write, Think - Letter Generator , Timeline tool, Diamante Poem wizard, Shape Poems*, Bio Cube, Flip Book, Mystery Cube, and Printing Press (newspaper, brochure, booklets).
Other tools also offered including Venn Diagram tools - create your own lists of words to drag and drop. |
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Write your own story. In the monthly story section you use the pictures at the top to give them each a name. Whenever you write that name in your story, the picture will appear, after it's published. These are like the rebus stories in Highlights magazine.
Teachers: you must submit a request for a password before your class can submit their stories. |
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 Grammar Slammar!
A help file that goes beyond a grammar checker. |
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Initial reading seems a bit advanced, but quickly leads to wonderful graphs, explanations, and examples. |
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Subject-Verb agreement and more. How to create a Works Cited page.
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How to write a paragraph, parts of a paragraph, kinds of paragraphs.
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 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Scroll down the page. Definitions and examples. Links to activities at bottom of page. |
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Help choosing topics and organizing your thoughts. |
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Read and write adventures with these prompts. |
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Three levels of difficulty - see what each includes below the buttons. Tip: Click Help to see what each tool does. Click a button for the type of correction needed in the sentence. Move your mouse over the spot needing the change to highlight it and then click. |
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Great writing prompts. |
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Listen and follow directions. Watch your story grow. |
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Find it in the Game Station area. Make choices to generate a story. Add your own ending.
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Rhyming Dictionary - Use the drop down menu to choose from several types of searches such as Find Rhymes, Find Similar Sounding Words, Find Antonyms, etc.
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Look up words (fast!) in the Student Dictionary. Build your own dictionary. Stump your friends with today's Daily Buzzward!
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Choose an activity to begin.
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How to Write a
Finding the right book for a book report is the key to successfully completing the assignment - this site will help.
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Here's a great way to gather all the ingredients you'll need to write a tasty book report.
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Print these shapes with or without lines.
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Where getting your daily writing "fix" is more important than fixing your writing. Write EVERY day!
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Scholastic online - Get your poetry juices flowing with the Poetry Idea Engine.
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You can Write a poem of your own; look for your own poem, or other kids' poems in Read more poems;
or find out about some of my favorite poem styles in What's a poem.
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Online poetry activities.
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