Inklewriter

Add some additional flavour to your writing programme by having your students create their own Choose Your Own Adventure story


Two Inklewriter stories

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Ladder by MarkHenryC

How Visual Thinking Improves Writing

"Younger kids typically love to draw and aren’t too worried about the outcomes of their artwork — until they get older. By the time they’ve learned to read and write, art takes a back burner to academics, primarily because of what most schools prioritize. Over time it becomes harder for kids to think in pictures the way they once did. But what if students were encouraged to think in pictures alongside words?".....

SHEL SILVERSTEIN

SHEL SILVERSTEIN POETRY SAMPLING

Pinterest collection of Shel's Poetry

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/shel-silverstein

A singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, award-winning children's writer, and actor, Shel Silverstein grew up in Chicago. He started out as a cartoonist, ...

Guide to the World of Shel Silverstein

BEST SHEL SILVERSTEIN POEMS

20 FAVOURITE SHEL POEMS

Teaching Resources for Shel Silverstein

Word Clouds

Word cloud made with WordItOut

5 Fantastic Word Clouds Tools for Chromebooks

Site of the Day

Technology Task/App Challenges for Teachers

Thank you, Ron Burke for sharing. A wealth of resources here.

Site of the Day ... The Art of Education

Why You Should Incorporate Art Challenges in Your Room This School Year

Students love a good challenge and thinking outside the box.

Sue

CONTROL ALT ACHIEVE

EMOJI ACTIVITIES

JUST ONE OF THE SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES SUGGESTED BY ERIC CURTIS

Eric Curtis is a Google Apps for Education Genius, and his blog is CHOCK FULL OF RESOURCES AND IDEAS TO IMPLEMENT GOOGLE APPS INTO THE CURRICULUM! Well worth bookmarking.

TeachThought &Teach100

Who We Are

TeachThought was founded and is directed by Terry Heick, an author and former classroom teacher interested in rethinking how we think about K-12 teaching and learning.

TeachThought
Teach100

Using News Sites for Language Arts

Control Alt Acheive with Google Docs and News Sites

The original idea goes like this…

• Students are given a magazine article and a black marker.
• They are instructed to read the article and decide what text is critical to the main point of the article and what text is not.
• Next they use the marker to black out any text that is not critical, leaving behind just the main ideas........

Thanks to Eric Curtis 

One-Page Fiction Reading/Thinking Passages Aligned with Core Priorities
Center for Urban Education Resources

All provide opportunities to develop students' competence for Common Core Anchor Reading Standard 1:
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; 

cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Select Reading Passages by Grade Level

Summer 2017 Sites to Explore

7 Intriguing Science Experiments for Kids Infographic


10 New & Innovative EdTech Products Announced at ISTE 2017


The Periodic Table of the Elements in Words and Pictures


Instagram for Teachers