Writing

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Lessons
[|Writing is Fun] - helping kids write a variety of genres using text organizers.

Online Activities
[|Silly Sentence Machine] - create silly sentences by choosing different words. [|Read, Write Think] - a huge variety of writing activities on this site. This is a must-see site. [|Myths Brainstorming Machine] - helps students brainstorm to write a myth. [|Story Starters] - a great site from Scholastic that gives you ideas to write about. Good for all levels.

Lessons
[|Writing is Fun] - helping kids write a variety of genres using text organizers. [|Character Builder] - a helpful planner when developing characters.

Online Activities
[|Language is a Virus] - tips and games to cure writers block. [|Tell a Story] - a really neat site where you create your own story based on piece of art! Multimedia. [|Read, Write Think] - a huge variety of writing activities on this site. This is a must-see site. [|Writing With Writers] - lessons and tips from pro writers in a avriety of genres. A great site for students as well as teachers. [|Model Bank] - Interactive Writer's Models [|The Hero Factory] - allows visitors to custom build a hero of their choice (male or female), making it truly their own through countless combinations of hair color, eyes, noses, outfits, accessories, color schemes, and more. Unfortunately, it does allow the heroes to have a weapon. Looks very cool!  [|The Brainstormer] - a fun, interactive spinner that provides a random combination of conflicts, characters, and settings.  [|Make Beliefs Comix] - create your own comics. A good site.  [|Myths Brainstorming Machine] - helps students brainstorm to write a myth.  Story Starters - a great site from Scholastic that gives you ideas to write about. Good for all levels.  [|Magazine Features] - a helpful tool when beginning to write a magazine.

=Language and Grammar=

Years 1-3
[|Grammar Blast] - a variety of games on different parts of grammar [|Maze Mania] - Help Word Girl find her way through the maze by collecting words with the same meaning. A good game. [|Grammar Blas] t - a variety of quizzes and games on different parts of grammar. [|Fish Em Up] - a great spelling game [|Get Smart English] - loads of links for games and activities to try. [|Interactive Whiteboard Games] - from PBS [|Games Classroom] - lots of different games for different levels

Years 4 - 6
[|Grammar Blast] - a variety of games on different parts of grammar [|Word Frog] - a game that teaches about antonyms, synonyms and homonyms [|Word Invasion]- a game that teaches about parts of speech [|Verb Viper] - students learn about verb tenses and forms through this game [|Prefixes] - 25 interactive games to learn about prefixes [|Suffixes] - interactive games to learn about suffixes [|Synonyms] - interactive games to learn about synonyms [|Homophones] - interactive games to learn about homophones [|Root Words] - interactive games to learn about root words [|Analogies] - interactive games to learn about analogies [|Antonyms] - interactive games to learn about antonyms [|Grammar Gorillas] - parts of speech - 2 levels [|Learn the Vowel Sounds] - an interesting video aimed at 5 year olds that teaches them the vowel sounds [|Grammar Ninja] - a great game that helps with grammar Free Rice - solve [|grammar] or [|vocabulary] questions while helping others. [|Homophones Quiz] - an online activity [|Sentence Structure Quiz] - an online quiz [|Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz] - an online quiz. [|Wasted Words 1] - an online matching activity [|Wasted Words 2] - an online matching activity. [|Pronoun Case Quiz] - an online quiz. [|Parallel Structure] - another online grammar quiz dealing with lists. [|Adverbs and Adjectives Quiz] - an online quiz. [|Capitalization Quiz] 1 - another online quiz. [|Capitalization Quiz 2] - an online quiz. [|Basic Commas Quiz] - an online quiz with clues. [|Advanced Commas Quiz] - an online quiz. [|Apostrophes Quiz] - an online quiz. [|Pick the Perfect Word Game] - find verbs in the this Charlotte's Web game. [|Interactive Grammar Exercises] - a long list of online grammar activities. [|Get Smart English 2] - loads of links for games and activities to try. [|Interactive Whiteboard Games] - from PBS [|Games Classroom] - lots of different games for different levels

=Poetry=

[|Online Rhyming Dictionary] - find rhyming words easily

[|Rhymzone] - find rhyming words, broken into number of syllables

[|Poetry.com] - another rhyme finder

[|Magnetic Poetry] - use the magnet words to create a poem

[|Pic Lits] - dag and drop words onto a picture to create a pic lit. Great for creative, descriptive phrases.

[|Instant Poetry Forms] - choose the poetry form from the list and then add words to create a poem.

[|Poem Quiz] - test your knowledge of poems in this online quiz.

[|Rhyming Activity] - an online rhyming activity

[|Poetry Idea Engine] - a great site from Scholastic that helps students write a variety of different poems while teaching them at the same time.

[|Glossary] - of poetic terms.

Poem Hunter - **contains 310,931 poems from 24,752 poets.. 124,601 **Songs **.. 10,145 Artists.. 64,870 Quotations.. **

Poetry Points - a great resource that can be downloaded or looked at online.

=Spelling=

[|Coconut Vowels] - a spelling game

[|Word Confusion] - a spelling game - different levels

[|Scramble-Saurus] - unscramble words on a variety of topics - different levels

[|The Plural Girls] - choose the correct plural form for words - different levels.

[|Spellaroo] - hop onto the misspelled word - 2 different levels

[|Spell Check] - find the misspelled words

[|Spin and Spell] - a fun game. Some of the words are difficult

[|Spelling Games] - a selection of 16 spelling games at different levels.

[|Catch the Spelling] - move the 'catcher' to catch the letters in order to spell the words. A large variety of topics to choose from.

[|Dog's Letter Pit] - spell words with Dog from Word World. A great game for early spellers.

[|Alphabet Falls] - learn upper and lower case letters. A game from Word World.

[|Frequently Confused Words Quiz] - an online quiz.

[|Fish Em Up] - a great spelling game for years 3-5.

[|Confusing Words] -  a collection of **3210** words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.