Interactive Resource

Interactive Lessons by Subject Language Arts

Poetry Tools and Their Uses

• KidZone Poetry Creator - Create your own poem by choosing from the list of words in the database. You may then save your poem to the database permanently
• Haiku Contest - Students can use picture prompts to create Haiku Poetry
• Poetry Forms - Presented by Burlington County ETTC
• Acrostic Poems - Students  learn about and write acrostic poems
• Diamante Poems - Students  learn about and write diamante poems.
• Shape Poems - A shape poem is a poem that describes an object and is written in the shape of the object.
• Line Break Explorer - This  interactive tool allows students to study the line breaks in a poem. They then manipulate the words in two other poems to change the lines breaks.
• Magnetic Poetry Board - This  interactive tool allows students to move "magnetic" words to create original poems. They can add to the preselected words by creating their own magnets.
• Student Riddle Interactive - This student interactive provides instructions on creating riddles. Students follow guidelines and learn strategies for the riddle writing process.
• Letter Poem Creator- Using the Letter Poem Creator, students engage with the medium of letters and experiment with writing them as poems, with attention to why the lines are broken, where they are broken, and how line breaks affect rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance
• Muse Poetry Generator - Pressing the "create" button will produce a line of poetry for you, which you can then continue, building on the imagery and sensibility of the words generated.
• Poetry Tiles - This applet creates a 'magnetic poetry' board upon which the user may shift around the words
• Magnetic Poetry - Play with Poetry Building Tiles online

Writing Tools

• Animal Inquiry - Graphic organizer for writing animal research paper
• Circle Plot Diagram
    - A prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories.
• Comic Creator - Students to compose their own comic strips
• Persuasion Map  Interactive - Graphic organizer for writing persuasive essay.
• Webbing Tool - Webbing tool to aid writing

Grammar/Language/Reading Tools

• Eye on Idioms - Introduces students to idioms.
• Fact Fragment Frenzy
    - Provides elementary students with an online model for finding facts in nonfiction text
• Flip-a-Chip- Students  mix and match four word parts, make four words, insert thewords into a paragraph, using context clues to determine where each word belongs.
• Hints about Print - Aids students in evaluating print resources
• Letter Generator- Students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or friendly letter, and then generate letters
• Literary Elements Map- Students can map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution
• Picture Match- A matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds
• Plot Diagram- An organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story.
• Stapleless Book - Stapleless Book is designed to allow users to create with ease an eight-page book simply by folding and cutting.
• Word Family Sort- Designed for beginning and struggling readers
• Word Maker- Students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending  and then adding a beginning letter or blend

Story Prompt Lessons

• Tips For Writing an Amazing Picture Prompt Response - PDF file of tips to help students write from Picture prompts
• Pics4Learning - Great Picture resourc
• Story It - Great resource for prompt and tools
• HSPA Sample - Well written sample prompt

Math/Science/Writing Activities

• Cut the Knot
• Nova Interactives
• Interactive Library

Writing Lesson Plans

• Grade 3-5
• Case for Reading—Examining Challenged and Banned Books  - Students will analyze the book  then write a persuasive piece, on their view about the book
• Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing -While "Playing" a game, students are made aware of their inherent knowledge of persuasive argument
• Vote for Me! Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches -This lesson encourages fourth- and fifth-grade students to think critically and write persuasively by focusing on preparing, giving, and evaluating mock campaign speeches.
• Voting! What's It All About?-Students learn about the voting process through read-alouds, partner and independent reading then share information through writing activities and discussions.

Grade 6- 8

• Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare -Students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet
• Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with Nothing But The Truth -After reading Avi's Nothing But The Truth and examining the resources related to First Amendment students compose and present position statement and supporting evidence
• Expository Escapade—Detective's Handbook-Students will combine reading in the detective fiction genre with expository writing
• Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion -Students design, build, and test inventions, data is recorded using commonly accepted scientific principles. Students write an appropriate speech for sharing their results
• Literary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis -Students exercise their oral and written persuasion skills by playing a role in a mock trial of a literary character.
• Persuasive Essay: Environmental Issues -Students create persuasive essays that address environmental issues that are relevant to their lives.

Grade 9- 12

• Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature -Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to the quotations.
• Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading-Students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books for the summer months.
• Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters-Students analyze World War II posters to explore how argument, persuasion, and propaganda differ.
• Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads-Students draw conclusions from an analysis of propaganda techniques used in a piece of literature