Writing Activities

Storybird is an excellent site for creating digital stories. Here is an example:




Another site I like is Bookr - http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/

Here is  an example called Oxford - My City




One site I use a lot for getting my students to write short texts is this newspaper snippet tool from fodey:

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Mini Sagas

Writing a mini saga is a challenging activity and it is also a lot of fun!  The objective is to write a short story in only 50 words.  It has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. The original idea came from the Daily Telegraph paper which ran a very popular Mini Saga competition for the first time in 1999. You can read someof the mini sagas.

You can click on the link to view a complete One Stop English lesson plan called Writing Skills: Mini Saga.

Finally a message to you from a talking cat :-)  Have a fabulous wekend!!