3-6+Tech-Writing

Grades 3-6 ** Ideas Shared by Linda Peters & Pam Krambeck, ESU#3 
 * [[image:ideabulb.gif align="left"]] 6-Trait Technology Integration Ideas
 * **Idea Development ** ||=  **[|Hero Web Site:]

[|The Writing Fix]** ||<  This web site can be an idea starter, or a site where students share and publish a poem or essay on their hero. Many teachers and students have found this to be a powerful launch pad for ideas.

Interactive writing prompts, picture book prompts, i-pod use of idea development, etc. This is the one site you need to visit if we could only select one site!

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 * Conventions ||= **[|Punctuation Paintball]**


 * [|Spelling City]** || Students in grades 2-8 will actually work on conventions using this fun web site that incorporates a paintball gun into correctly punctuating a sentence or paragraph. Different skills levels can be used.

Great site that helps students with spelling words. Students can enter their spelling list and then have it read to them, play games with the words, etc. This site keeps getting better! || || **Comic Creators** Here is an example from Bit Strips: || || [|Text Analyzer]
 * Voice
 * [|Bit Strips]
 * [|Pixton] || Here is a list of comic creators--a fun way to get students in grades 3-6 to write. Think of the "F" in R.A.F.T. (format) and the use of voice and quotations in comic strips.
 * Word Choice

[|Visual Thesaurus] [|Very Short Stories]

[|Wordle] || Text Analyzer allows the students (or teacher) to copy and paste a selection of text into a box and have it analyzed for word choice, high frequency words, etc. A data-filled tool to get students to look at the "facts" of their writing.

Visual Thesaurus is a fun way to expand student word choice

Communicating a message in under 140 characters--the challenge is on for word choice.

Wordle-word cloud generator || [|Writing Fix Lessons] || The writing fix web site has lessons that use the R.A.F.T. process for writing in content areas. ||
 * R.A.F.T. ||