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Poetry Online
Sally has been creating Voki Poetry Online– Create visual poems with just a
stories with her students. Voki’s
click of the mouse!
are animated characters that allow
great for having students animate neat way to have students create visual copy and paste the information that Onsens
and narrate their own stories. This poetry. Remember the refrigerator magnet gives you into the widget box on your wiki.
activity also helps with fluency as poems? This site allows you to type your If you would like to see how to do all this, click
the students must practice and poem, choose your background and drag the on this link for an interactive video tutorial that
read smoothly before recording “magnetic words” where you want them to be you are also welcome to use with your
their narration. Check out the Our on your background. You can choose your students in the lab.
Stories part of her wiki along with style of magnet as well as your background
the podcast portion. Way to go color. You can also set your poem to music,
Sally! Your wiki is a wonderful although I caution you on letting the students
resource for all. just search for music to add. You might want
Communities
Or the interactive tool for
of a Story
READ, WRITE,
THINK
Read, Write, Think is a
wonderful website where
students can use the online
tools to help them become
better organizers of their
thoughts as well as writers.
Some of the wonderful
examples of tools they have
for students are:
Acrostic Poems
Character Trading
Essay Map Venn Diagram
Cards
Flip Books Timeline Creator
Comic Strip Creator
Graphic Organizers Word Family Sorters
Compare and Contrast
Notetaker
Map
Shape Poems Check out the lesson plan
Diamonte Poems
Story Map section for some good ideas!