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Easy to use Comic Creator to inspire story-telling. Choose the background for your Action hero. Use the slider to choose the pose. Add speech bubbles and text. Click next top add up to six frames.

Read & Create Children's Picture Books Online - Great authoring tool for creating your own books. Use the library of pictures or upload your own.

Excellent site for different genre examples and organizers. Takes time to get familar with site but worth it. Nice for smartboard as there is a write online feature.

Index of Idiomatic expressions, spanish and french equivalents, some cartoon examples, audiory samples, contextual examples

This is an outstanding resource.... Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities. Behind the Lesson provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

Nice example of how to use wordle in the classroom as a pre-reading strategy.

Help Fernando get to school by typing the past tense of the verb shown on his book.

Online graphic organizer for writing a book report

Companion to textbook Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary but still useful for grades 1-6. Hover over the word or definition to hear it read aloud.

Amazing site for K-2 teachers. Topics too numerous to list. Use the left side menu. Loads of printables for your classroom.

BrainPop movie that explains how to write a paragraph. Great for whole class instruction and then let students review individually.

Elementary level; PDF format

This site contains many beautifully illustrated worksheets in pdf format that contain the beginning of a story. More story beginners are added frequently to the site, and students or teachers may submit a student story created with a Meddybemp starter. Students whose stories get published receive a free T-shirt and online publication! Selected students become Young Writers Workshop Published Authors!

Five interactive tools for writing in primary classrooms.