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18/6/09 - Great way of showing links between word groups and synonyms. Fully interactive and colourful.

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15/5/09 - High-quality images of rickety bridges in a range of different places around the world. I will use this page of over 20 pages for describing settings in narrative.

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english.narrative english.writing resources

19/4/09 - "Photorealistic zoo". Make your own new animals, play animal games and puzzles. Learn about animals. Build animal habitats. Superb site for habitats or as a writing stimulus. The site even offers lesson plans.

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19/4/09 - "How to Teach a Child to Argue. Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony." This could have great application in P4C / thinking skills, or just conflict resolution. Essentially, it focuses on arguments/persuasive rhetoric founded in logic, reputation and emotion. This could also provide the basis for an interesting speaking and listening or persuasive writing lesson.

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29/3/09 - This will be particularly useful for discussion of life cycles and as a writing stimulus. Clips include: snowstorm, eclipse, corn growing, caterpillars turning into butterflies, earth rise, a rotting apple, a thunder storm, the Northern Lights, and a firestorm.

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17/3/09 - A wealth of writing resources for primary and secondary teachers. Helps with finding story ideas, developing plot and finishing the narrative. Highly recommended. Also includes writing warm up games / warm-up / starter activities.

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17/3/09 - Up to 8 users can collaborate on a document in real time. This free-to-use website could be fantastic for shared writing, brainstorming or ICT Club.

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resources ict.clubs ict english.writing thinking.skills

9/11/08 - With a small amount of editing, this will be a very interesting addition to lessons on the human body or non-chronological reports / explanation texts.

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1/11/08 - Creative writing starter ideas; some may not be appropriate for unfiltered use in the classroom. Worth looking at though...

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english.writing resources ideas inspiration

10/10/08 - Written by one of the major contributors to the TES staff forum and a "Big Writing" expert, this blog has plenty of ideas for improving writing.

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VCOP english.writing resources

30/7/08 - An entertaining and informative website which answers the above question and many others. I will use modified versions of these when teaching explanation and information texts.

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20/7/08 - "Dial 1 for Settings / Dial 2 for Characters / Dial 3 for Dramatic Entrances / Dial 4 for Dialogue / Dial 5 to Commiserate / Dial 6 for Verbs / Dial 7 for Calisthenics / Dial 8 to Kill a Character / Dial 9 for Endings" Many of these ideas could be used in school, but I would be wary of using the actual website, as I haven't seen every possible idea. My class will be creating their own when we look at narrative writing in September.

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31/5/08 - Diary, discussion, autobiography, letters, narrative and short story.

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english.narrative english.writing english.nonfiction resources

30/5/08 - "Wild Sanctuary is home to the largest private archive of natural sound, anywhere! Our worldwide collection represents over 3,500 hours of wild soundscapes and nearly 15,000 species." Great for Geography, Science and as writing stimulus.

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Great document for looking at non-chronological reports Year 4 upwards.

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english.nonfiction english.writing history resources

26/3/08 - Useful collection of links to online texts that can be used to support persuasion, recount, explanation, reports, narrative and poetry.

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English.nonfiction English.Writing Resources

20/4/08 - Gives randomised charcters and events for creative writing stimulus. I won't use this with children because some of the scenarios might elicit too many awkward questions. I will probably collate the more relevant and appropriate ones at home. Looks good though!

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English.Writing english.narrative Resources generators

20/4/08 - Free, high quality tool for creating magazines. You can also view examples made by other people/groups.

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English.Writing Resources ict.clubs

2/3/08 - Creative inspiration, writing games, sentence games and creating creative games from stories.

www.everybodywrites.org.uk/...pie_corbett - Preview

English.Writing Resources

25/3/08 - Glossy look and plenty of features to create your own magazine. As it says "a free tool for teachers and students to make their own web-magazines"

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English.Writing ICT Resources