Language+Arts+Workstations

Language Arts Workstations

// Creative Writing //
[|My Story Maker] Stories can be printed out or shared with others online. Great for practicing and applying grammar usage, quotation marks etc.
 * ** Description **: Wonderful site for students to create stories with pictures, actions, emotions and quotations. Must see for ELL students/
 * [] Main site - Enter Magic number here to retrieve stories. Student created stories can then be displayed as a slide show.

[|Collaborative Story Boards]


 * ** Description **:Students may use this to create narratives, poetry, expository, or research based stories. Students may create independently or collaborate with a peer. Students may use this to create alternate endings and additional scenes. Parents and students need to be aware that this site requires creating accounts and stories become the property of the web site.
 * **Sample: [|StoryBoard Tour - video]**

[|Make online books using Flickr photos and text.] **__[]__**
 * NEW
 * Description__:__ ** Another great site to create stories and books with pictures and settings! **

[|Create a story with a partner]
 * ** Description **: Collaboration board that can be used whole class, or with small workstation groups to draw, create scenes or stories together, design story elements such as setting, characters, problem, solutions.....

[|Story starters] [|Mind Mapping]
 * ** Description **: Students select type of story they want to write then are given a story starter to complete online.
 * ** Description **: This website allows students to create mind maps and graphic organizers for writing, notes, etc.

[|Creative Writing]
 * ** Description **: [|www.piclits.com] This site allows students to think and write creatively through the use of picture backgrounds and word banks.

[|Comic Creator]
 * ** Description **: Interactive website for student comic creations. Excellent to use while teaching quotation marks, but can be used in many ways as visuals.

[|Cooperative Monster Stories]
 * **Description**: Students draw monsters, characters or setting of text they are reading and then write a detailed description for a friend to recreate from the original description. Pictures are then compared. Can be used with [|www.imaginationcubed.com]

[|www.ReadWriteThink.org] [|ReadWriteThink- Student Materials]

Interactive Character Trading Cards Site
 * **Description:**
 * "The Character Trading Cards tool allows students to create their own character cards, which they can then print off, illustrate,and trade or keep. It can be used with characters in a book students are reading or as a prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories. Specific prompts as students to describe the character, look at his or her thoughts and feelings, explore how he or she develops, identify important thoughts and actions and make personal connections to the character.


 * [|Tips for Using Trading Cards]
 * [|Trading Cards Planning Sheet]
 * [|Planning Story Characters Using Interactive Trading Cards]

[|Picture Books by Character Traits]

[|BBC Bites] [|Make A Story]
 * **Description**: Multiple writing activities to choose from including animated videos to explain types of writing.
 * **Description**: Visual cloze activity that turns pictures chosen into words.

[|Interactive Story Elements]
 * Story of Cinderella with detailed explanation of story elements

=// Reading //= [|Storyline Online]
 * **Description:** Screen Actors Guild members reading books with visuals, captions and follow up activities

[|Literature Circles Resource Center] [|Online interactive Self-Reflection for Literature Circles] [|Film Production Roles for Literature Circles] [|Great LA website and Graphics] [|How to Make Stapleless Books] [|Collection of Aesop's Fables with Audio and Language choices]

[|Copyright Free books online]
 * **Description:** Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 ebooks to use on your Interactive Whiteboard, PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable devices.

[|Reading Lady.com]
 * **Description:** has many good lesson plans for hands-on reading activities

[|Engaging LA Activities, Interactives and Lesson Plans]
 * ** Description ** : Teachers/students have a variety of choices for engaging activites that could accompany any literature circle book study

[|Reader's Theater Scripts] [|More Reader's Theater Scripts]
 * **Description** : Collection of Reader's Theater scripts to print and act out as a workstation. Use flipcam to film or whiteboard to record.

[|Interactive Digital Story Telling] [|BBC Bites Home Page]
 * **Description**: Classic children’s stories brought to life by TV star Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P ** . ** Animated and interactive. May need to preview for younger children. Gives great visuals for ELL students
 * **Description**: bbc Bites home page

=// Poetry //= [|Locate specific Poetry types]
 * **Description**: Poetry form finder

[|ReadWriteThink Shape Poems]
 * **Description**: Shape Poetry Interactive

[|Poetry by topic with lesson plans]
 * ** Description :** Examples of specific types of poems, how to use poetry journals and additional links.

=// Grammar, Writing and Spelling: //=

[|ESL Grammar]
 * **Description**: Everything you want to know about English Grammar for all grade levels and adults. (advertisements)

[|ESL Activities of all kinds including online assessments]

[|Spelling Interactive] NEW
 * **Description**: interactive video for spelling

[|Idioms]
 * ** Description :** Online Idiom quizzes

[|Spelling City Interactive]
 * ** Description: ** Interactive Spelling site that can be customized by teacher. Spelling vocabulary from specific books is available
 * [|Directions for use]