Once Upon a Picture

Once Upon a Picture is great looking website, similar to Pobble 365 I wrote about a while ago.
Its got pictures to be used either to inspire writing, promote use of interesting vocabulary, to teach skills such as inference, deduction and prediction, or to use for cross-curriculare lessons. Watch the trailer below:

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Pobble 365

This is an interesting teaching website: Pobble 365 puts a picture online each day along with questions to discuss and ideas for writing. You could use the sentence ideas as part of a grammar lesson, or the whole thing for a Big Writing lesson.

Christmas videos on The Literacy Shed website

There are some great little video clips on the Literacy Shed website's Christmas page which could be used as stimulus for writing. The clip from The Chronicles of Narnia could be used alongside the book to look at how the author uses words to create a scene, and there are lots more. Not so sure about the Christmas version of the 3 Little Pigs though...
There's a spooky little wintery story below which is on the Literacy Shed's Ghostly page which I've used before to look at the emotion of fear and how to listen to our internal warning signs, although you might just want to look at the wintery street at the beginning. It's probably best for middle/ upper school - it's pretty scary!.

Design a Comic Book Cover

Probably best for upper school, this website is great for creating and analysing stylish comic book covers. You can add a title, sub-headings and pictures to create your own story, and then of course you could write it! Click here

Storybird

Storybird is a beautiful creative website where children can make their own online story books, using a huge range of artwork. This video gives a quick guide to getting started. You can make class accounts to keep all your children's stories together. Well worth a look.


Storybird Quick Tour from Storybird on Vimeo.

Word Tamer - fab site for writing

Word Tamer is a spooky little website with lots of inspiring ideas to motivate writers. There are sections on genre, setting, plot, character and words, and certificates can be printed once a section is completed.