engaging and motivating reluctant writers
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Here are the bare bones of my presentation. Its just a list of tools to get students engaged in the writing process. Tools don't teach, teachers do.TRANSCRIPT
Quinns Beach TDSA lifetime to DREAM, EXPLORE, DISCOVER
EngagingReluctant Writers
with
Digital Tools
Bhavneet Singh
I haven’t got anything
to write about!
I don’t know how to
write it!
I don’t know how
to make it sound
interesting?
I don’t know
what words to
use!
Why should I?
I don’t want to
write.
Ideas! Structure! Vocabulary!
Language! Purpose!
Ideas★ Give them something to write about★ Provide scaffolds - writing frameworks,
personal experiences, images, etc★ Read and reflect on good pieces of writing
Vocabulary★ Exposure
★ Use different tools
★ Teach about language features in fun way
★ Quick short activities
■ Vocabulary games
■ Sentence structure games
■ Punctuation games
■ Spelling gamesWorlde
Tagxedo
Visual
Thesaurus
Audience &
Purpose★ Different forms of communication
★ Who is the target audience?
★ Writing for a blog, movie, puppet show,
website, etc
Piclits★ Images
★Vocabulary
★Use any Visual Prompts to get the
imagination going
www.literacyshed.com
www.lendmeyourliteracy.com
www.readwritethink.org
www.100wc.net
Storybird
Storyjumper
photopeach
★Build your wild self
★Create a car
★Create a monster
★Create a Superhero
Be Creative
Other fun tools
www.powtoon.com
www.voki.com
www.animoto.com
www.glogster.com (edu version)
Other Apps★ Book Creator★ Explain
Everything★ Educreations★ HaikuDeck★ Prezi★ Showbie★ AudioBoom★ Grafio Lite★ Story Buddy 2★ Adobe Voice★ My Story
★ Glogster★ iMovie★ Stopmotion★ Superimpose★ Greenscreen★ Inkflow★ Inspiration★ Popplet★ Thinkglink★ VoiceThread
★ QR Code Creator★ Montaj★ Piccollage★ Aurasma★ Voice Photo★ Sock Puppets★ Puppet Pals★ Puppets Edu★ Tellagami★ FlipGrid★ Balloon+
Publish
Website builders
★www.weebly.com
★www.wix.com
★Wordpress
★Edublogs