Writing+Websites

Here are some fun websites to help you with writing or to just get some ideas going. (Just click on the link below the screenshot to go directly to the website). Have fun!

Does your child like to write funny cartoons? Well, below is the website for them. Here they can create their own cartoon. It's fun and quick. Just another way to encourage your students/kids to write. Look at my cartoon that I created.

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Here is a fun website to use on a rainy day. You can write an interesting story and headline and computer will put it into a newspaper format. It looks really cool. This is just another way for students to write in the digital age. It's fun and creative. It also has the students practice their writing skills in another manner other than just with paper and pencil. Look at the article that I created about myself.

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Wordle is a fun website in which you can create word maps. All you have to do is type in the words and click, the website will then create the word map for you. You can even change the way the word map looks by clicking randomize. It is just another way to create word webs, word walls in the digital age. I am going to have my students help create word maps for overused words in their writing. I think having the opportunity to type in your list of words and having the computer create the image of the map is very motivating for the students. Here is an example of one that I created about myself.

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Are you looking for a fun way for your kids to learn the keys on the computer keyboard from home. Try this website. Your kids can practice their typing skills in a game format from the internet. This will help learn where each of the keys are. This will help improve their speed typing. It will also help them when I take them into the computer lab in school because a lot time is sometimes wasted because the students are hunting for keys because they don't have enough practice typing. With the computer lab full most of the day, it is very difficult for the teacher to schedule time in the lab to just practice keyboarding because she wants to use that lab time for the students to create beautiful technology projects.

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Switch Zoo is a fun website because it allows you to create new and different animals. Then it tells you facts about each animal that makes up your new animal. After creating the animal, you can write about the new animal's habitat, environment, or even about what a day in the life of this new animal would be like. I think the creating is so much fun and I can't wait to write about my new animal creature.

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Build Yourself Wild is just like the website listed above only it is in a more cartoon format whereas the one above is in a more realistic format. Same ideas as above, just create your creature and then get ready to write about it. So much fun!!! (Please don't make fun of the picture of myself below)!

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