English

[|Web English Teacher] [|Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades K - 7] This site is designed for writing a biography or an autobiography. It has kids reviewing the information they learn after reading a biography or interviewing a person. When kids print it out, the information is in an outline of a cube that kids can cut and glue to make a 3D cube. This is REALLY neat! Have a look! [|http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/]
 * [|Mrs G's English Lessons and Links]
 * BIO CUBE**

**Storybirds** are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print. [] These look very interesting and would have many uses in your classroom.

Teachers can have a bit of fun creating poetry with their students on the **PicLits** website. It has a fantastic selection of high quality and unusual images that can be used to inspire writing. The Learn It Tab has instructions on basic creative writing and help but there are basically two options: • a drag and drop facility, which has plenty of themed vocabulary for each image, • a freestyle mode [|**http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx**]

[|http://www.zooburst.com] || [|ROAD TO GRAMMAR] Here's a free site with 365 grammar quizzes which would be good for ESL students or anyone wanting to practice grammar in the classroom. Called Spreeder, the site offers a few different settings and the ability to enter customized text information. The text is flashed back on the screen at varying speeds (you decide) to hone your speed reading skills. [] Here's a collection of resources from **Handwriting for Kids**. These animations will show methods for creating both manuscript and cursive writing. [|Lowercase Manuscript Letters] [|Uppercase Manuscript Letters][|Lowercase Cursive Letters][|Uppercase Cursive Letters]
 * ZooBurst** is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. There is an Augmented Reality component that may be of interest to some. While the free version allows you to work with the program, there is a premium level that allows for classroom management for teachers.
 * How about a speed reading tool ?**

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