Monday, May 31, 2010

WordSift


WordSift sifts through texts and helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. It includes a Visual Thesaurus and Google searches of images and videos. The program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.

Pics4Learning


Free photographs to use as stimuli for writing activities.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Teacher Tube


An online site for teachers to share instructional videos.

Text 2 Mind Map





Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that creates a mind map out of a list of words.

Write Source


A good site for examples of student writing across the text types.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Pic Lits


PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Study Search


A customised educational search engine for Australian Schools

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Tikatok


Tikatok is where you can transform imagination into stories and publish those stories into books to share.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Writing Fun


Lots of different text types - a very good tool for teaching generic structure with examples.

Rhyme Zone


Find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, related words, definitions, etc.

The Resource Room


Tools, Strategies, and Structured Explorations for Interesting Learners.

Poetry Archive


Archive of classic and contemporary poetry.

Fun Brain


A fun site for kids & teachers with lots of K - 8 activities.