This is an excellent guide to writing in a variety of text types, including:
- Information Reports
- Procedures
- Recounts
- Explanations
- Persuasions (Expositions)
- Discussions
- Narratives
- Responses
- Descriptions
- Poetry
Learn all about writing, including:
- Acrostic Poems
- Biographies
- Book Reports
- Business Letters
- Cinquain Poems
- Comparing/Contrasting
- Diamante Poems
- Haiku Poems
- How-to-Articles
- Journaling
- Limericks
- News Stories
- Personal Narratives
- Persuasive Essays
- Research Papers
- Short Stories
The above site is an excellent place to learn about a variety of text types. Check out the funny animations while you listen to many practical writing tips.
Learn a little about procedures by working through this activity.
Learn the elements of a story by seeing how they are used in the famous tale of Cinderella.
Write fantastic newspaper articles and create eye-catching posters and funny comics.
GOOD SENTENCE STARTERS
Check out these fantastic sentence starters...
PLANNING FOR WRITING
Join the broadcast team and help them to prepare the headline news!
This may come in handy when you are planning to compare and contrast two items.
Learn all about structure and paragraphs in this fun activity.
Can you write a simple sentence? Of course you can! Watch the video and you will also learn about two other sentence types: compound and complex.
These sentences are loaded with dynamite. Watch out!
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Read this guide to similes and brighten up your writing.
MASTER CLASS
Who's got style? You've got style!
Example one.
Example two.
TELESCOPIC TEXT
Write your own telescopic text here!
ANALYSE YOUR WRITING
WORDLE
Enter a list of words or text from a story etc. The more frequently a word occurs, the larger it will appear.
'FILL IN THE BLANKS' WRITING FUN
MAD LIBS CREATIONS
Fill in the blanks to create a "super silly" and seriously funny story!
THE JOURNEY TO DARKEST SOMEWHERE
Edit this book! Change the highlighted words and pictures. "Now should I wear orange pants or blue pants?"
THE HOUSE OF SCARY WORDS
Change this book as you read it!
STORY MAKER
Have fun playing with the animations. Before you know it you'll have written a VERY cool story!
WACKY WEB TALES
Fill in the blanks (nouns, verbs etc.) and create a wacky tale!
Enter a list of words or text from a story etc. The more frequently a word occurs, the larger it will appear.
'FILL IN THE BLANKS' WRITING FUN
Fill in the blanks to create a "super silly" and seriously funny story!
Edit this book! Change the highlighted words and pictures. "Now should I wear orange pants or blue pants?"
Change this book as you read it!
Have fun playing with the animations. Before you know it you'll have written a VERY cool story!
Fill in the blanks (nouns, verbs etc.) and create a wacky tale!
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