Three Good Resources for Helping Students Learn About and Write Poetry

In my previous post I shared Haiku Deck's list of ideas for teaching poetry with the Haiku Deck web and iPad apps. If Haiku Deck isn...

Kids Can Create Alphabet Books With Alphabet Organizer

Alphabet Organizer is a great little tool from Read Write Think that students can use to create alphabet charts and books. The idea behind ...

Read Write Think Timeline - A Timeline Tool for Almost All Devices

Read Write Think offers a bunch of great web, iOS, and Android applications for students. One of those that I recently learned about from D...

Five Tools That Help Students Plan Stories

As a student the importance of planning a story before writing it was driven into my head. Then when I became a teacher, I drove that same m...

Help Students Start Stories With Word Mover

This afternoon during the technology smackdown at Teaching & Learning conference in Gaston, North Carolina Julian Scott Wilson reminded...

Eye on Idioms and the Road to Grammar

Eye on Idioms hosted by Read Write Think is a good site that students can use to practice identifying and using idioms. Eye on Idioms pre...

Read Write Think Makes It Easy to Create Crossword Puzzles

I've never been a big fan of crossword puzzles, but my grandmother who taught Language Arts for decades loved them. I know that many oth...

5 Great Activities from Read Write Think

If you're an elementary school teacher who has not bookmarked Read Write Think, you absolutely should do that today. Read Write Think pr...

Picture Match - A Read Write Think Game for K-2

Picture Match is a nice little interactive game from Read Write Think for K-2 students. Picture Match asks students to match objects to th...

The Hero's Journey - A Lesson in Writing Myths

The Hero's Journey is an online writing activity produced by Read Write Think. The Hero's Journey is an interactive resource that t...

Word Mover Helps Students Start Poems

Word Mover is another nice, free iPad app from Read Write Think. The app is designed to help students develop poems and short stories. When...

Create Trading Cards for Historical and Fictional Characters - The Web Version

Yesterday, I wrote a post about Read Write Think's Trading Cards iPad App . That post got reTweeted like crazy and this morning I had a ...

Create Trading Cards for Historical and Fictional People, Places, and Events

Through one of Tony Vincent's Tweets I learned about a wonderful free iPad app from Read Write Think. Read Write Think Trading Cards a...

Story Map - An Interactive Story Planner

Story Map is a free interactive story planning tool from Read Write Think . Story Maps provides four templates for outlining stories. To us...

Five Tools for Modern Postcard Lessons

Yesterday, I found a postcard creation tool and lesson on Read Write Think. The RWT Postcard Creator walks students through the process of ...

Create Story Cubes With Templates from Read Write Think

Earlier this week I spent some time browsing Read Write Think and came across this lesson plan for creating biography cubes . The biography...

Compare & Contrast Map - A Writing Template

Read Write Think is a good source of interactive writing templates. I've previously featured a handful of their templates including thi...

Letter Generator - Learn How To Write a Letter

Most communication happens electronically today but there are still some occasions when a good old fashioned paper letter is called for. Rea...

Eye on Idioms - Practice Identifying and Using Idioms

On Friday, I shared a good resource for ESL/ ELL students called Idiom Dictionary . Eye on Idioms hosted by Read Write Think is a good com...

Make and Print a Simple Flip Book

Read Write Think provides teachers, particularly reading and writing teachers, with a wealth of information and teaching resources. One neat...