Creative Writing Ideas
Some excellent ideas to use as a stimulus for creative writing.
Dropping In
A great sentence exercise which can help you to write interesting sentences.
Sentence Magic
This site highlights some important ways of improving sentences to make your writing more interesting.
Sight Words
Free resources designed to help parents teach their child to read. The learning materials can be used in the home or classroom. Includes lessons and instructional videos. Well worth a look!
Poetry4Kids
Lots of poetry for children and good tips for writing poetry. Great for teaching ideas and Kenn Nesbitt is also available for school visits.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide. It has useful advice to help you improve your writing techniques, but it is quite heavy going.
Pobble365
Pobble365 supports teachers with creative writing activities whether it be generating interesting vocabulary or teaching punctuation or grammar. For every day of the year it begins with a thought provoking image to stimulate inspiring ideas. It's free.
Sentence Doctor
Something is wrong with the sentences in this game. Can you spot the problems?
One Look Dictionaries
Multi-dictionary site including medical, science, technical, computer, business and languages dictionaries and more.
Ssssssnake Hotel
A great blog with lots of fabulous teaching ideas for reading/writing/performing poetry.
