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  Points of View Newspaper Report

  Witnesses to accidents can see different things. Read and listen to two witness reports of a skateboarding accident, and learn about how journalists structure newspaper reports and use verbs, adverbial phrases and pronouns to create an effect.
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  Finish the Story: Bushfire

  Edit the comic book adventure called Bushfire to make the story more interesting. Choose a conclusion for the story and then improve the grammar by looking changing nouns to pronouns, by adding adverbs and choosing saying verbs.
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  Missing Pop Star Puzzle

  Work out what happened to the missing celebrity and write a newspaper article about the event. Lots of tips on improving your writing style.
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  Super Stories - Nouns and Adjectives

  A game that can help you to improve your use of nouns and adjectives. You get to be an editor who improves a fairly dull story into a bestselling horror story. Select great nouns, adjectives and illustrations to improve the story's impact.
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  Wonderful Words, Creative Stories about Space

  improve two simple sentences by adding descriptive words. Observe how your choices affect the animated images. Use your sentences as inspiration for a story about space. A good site for demonstrating how to write more interesting sentences.
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  Riddle of the Black Panther

  Track down a black panther reported to be prowling around a town. Interview witnesses and gather information from sources such as a website, an advertisement and a newspaper article. A good guide to writing a report.
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  Wonderful Words, Creative Stories Beach Theme

  An animated game where you can see how to add adjectives to make boring sentences into more interesting ones.
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  Elements of a Story

  Taking the story of Cinderella it explores the different 'ingredients' that make up a story. Looking at this site can help you with writing your own stories.
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  Dictation Exercise

  Call of the Jungle is a dictation task. Listen to the sentences and write them down.
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  Sentence Samurai

  This resource demonstrates how sentences can be elaborated to be more interesting.