Woodlands Junior School. (2008). Woodlands Literacy Zone. Retrieved April 10, 2008 from
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm
This site has a great variety of interactive sites I can use with my students for Language Arts. Sue, you really need to check this out because most of the material is geared towards elementary aged kids. It's good for me to have material below grade level though, especially for when I introduce something and for when I'm working with my lower level kids.
One of the skills for the CRCT that my kids are required to know is how to write a business letter. Today we used the link to the ReadWriteThink letter generator. First we did a friendly letter on the Activboard and then we did a business letter. We used the pen for the whiteboard to circle differences in the two types of letters. The students could see the creation in the process and really got into it since we tried to make it funny and they got to use the whiteboard.
I left the business letter up on the whiteboard as an example for the students to use as they wrote their own business letters. I really felt like this activity did a better job of teaching how to write a business letter than just doing a worksheet. I also like this because it's not just an interactive game we're playing, I'm actually TEACHING using my board.
Next year I am defintely going to use the Myth Brainstorming Machine link to get my students to write myths. While it is rather elementary, I think it does a really good job of getting a visual in the kids' head and giving them ideas to get started. My students absolutely freeze when it comes time to write and I think this would help get them get started.
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What an incredible site! Thank you for sharing. I just sent of an email to my entire K-4 faculty to check it out. I've been working on creating a list of sites for my students to access both from school and home (I get so many parent requests). I now have a wonderful site on which to model my own. Now I just have to find the time to do it!
Thanks again Jessica. I had been steering away from UK sights because of the spelling differences then I decided that I could use this as a teaching moment when the different spelling occurs from American English and British English. What a plethora of games and activities. I too am going to bookmark this and share it with my school. We are always looking for good things for our SMARTboards. I enjoy your posts and they inspire me to search on.
Another great site for resources!
I agree that it is difficult to teach letter writing to kids. They have so few opportunities to write letters outside of school and when they do they typically use email and all the email/texting slang that goes along with it. I think this is a neat way to make letter writing appealing and exciting.
Great idea!
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