Language+Arts+resources

=Language Arts resources= (click on the image to take you to the websites)

These tools generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. Teachers have used them to find recurring phrases or themes in texts. The font, color, and back ground colors can be changed. Or, hit the randomize button and see what happens. The image at the top of the homepage is an example of a Wordle based on 21st Century Skills used in this wiki. ***WARNING*** Because these sites are public, some of the content created by users might not be school appropriate.

The Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:
 * Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
 * Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
 * Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
 * Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
 * Tell a story
 * Make a drawing
 * Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

This online, graphical dictionary is a really interesting alternative to the traditional dictionary. Visuwords creates a graphic organizer style image with a word and its definition in the middle. Attached, are all kinds of related words that are color-coded according to their part of speech (noun, adjective, etc...) or their relationship to the central word (synonym, antonym, etc...). This dictionary works very well with visual learners.

Magnetic Poetry's site is the online version of those highly-addictive refrigerator magnets used to create poems and stories. You can choose from several different versions of their products (genius edition, story edition, romance edition, etc...). If you click on the "magnetic poetry" image above, you will be connected to the kid friendly version.