Writing Window

There are many websites that have writing information and fun activities.

 

Story Starters

www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters

a fun creative writing website in which you spin a wheel to get ideas for a character, plot, and setting 

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Writing with Writers

teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/

a website with workshops on writing by authors

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Story Jumper

http://www.storyjumper.com

an easy-to-use website to create a free online story with images and text

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Storybird

https://storybird.com

a website to create picture books and poetry and use the provided colorful illustrations

 

Mad Libs

http://www.redkid.net/madlibs/

A mad lib is an interactive story that you add specific types of words to and then once all the words are added, the story is read and it is often funny. 

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ReadWriteThink

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/

a resource of online writing tools and activities

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Chateau Meddybemps Young Writers Workshop

www.meddybemps.com/9.700.html

a website with illustrated story starters to help kids write and stories written by kids

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Story Factory

http://pbskids.org/storyfactory/

a story drawing tool by PBS kids to help kids develop storytelling skills

 

My StoryMaker

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/storymaker/embed.cfm

writing tool by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh that lets kids create animated stories by choosing the basic parts of a story from a menu and then writing in the details on each pag