Exploring Persuasive Text through a Fairytale Context
Exploring word types
Getting emotive
Identifying arguments
Text structure
Convincing an audience
Creating a persuasive text
And more
15 free Resources to develop typing skills
As I move around schools I find that keyboard skills is one of the biggest issues in students being efficient with a keyboard. As we move to touch screen and speech to t ext, this will become redundant perhaps but as most schools are using keyboards we need to teach some keyboard skills.
Jut found this. Select your charcter, location etc and then create your story adding sounds, backgrounds, speech bubbles.
Have a try. Let me know what your students think or leave me a link of what they have done.
This is a great list from Deb Ng, founder and former owner of the Freelance Writing Jobs. I thought hard about what she’d written to see if I could add anything, enhance or disagree.
What would you change or add?
Cooking by Numbers
Playing to Win
Savings and Credit
Population Growth
Not all people are chefs, but we are all eaters. Most of us need to learn how to follow a recipe at some point. To create dishes with good flavor, consistency, and texture, the various ingredients must have a kind of relationship to one another.
10 Apps for Digital Storytelling
"A while back I did a post on top sites for Digital Storytelling. This has been a skill that is being taught in school districts all around the world, and is a key for developing technology literacy. With the recent wave of mobile devices and technologies, a giant step has been taken in how students develop these skills (via touch screen) in a brand new way."
Six vinage inspired animations on critical thinking
Australian outfit Bridge 8, who have the admirable mission of devising “creative strategies for science and society,” and animator James Hutson have created six fantastic two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at kids ages 8 to 10 but also designed to resonate with grown-ups.
