Grades+3-6+Tech+Integration+Ideas

Grades 3-6 ** Pam Krambeck, ESU#3 
 * 6-Trait Technology Integration Ideas
 * **Idea Development ** ||=  **[|Hero Web Site:]

[|The Writing Fix]** ||<  This web site can be an idea starter, or a site where students share and publish a poem or essay on their hero. Many teachers and students have found this to be a powerful launch pad for ideas.

Interactive writing prompts, picture book prompts, i-pod use of idea development, etc. This is the one site you need to visit if we could only select one site!

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 * ====**Conventions **==== ||= **[|Punctuation Paintball]**

[|Spelling City] || Students in grades 2-8 will actually work on conventions using this fun web site that incorporates a paintball gun into correctly punctuating a sentence or paragraph. Different skills levels can be used.

|| **Comic Creators** Here is an example from Bit Strips: || || [|Text Analyzer]
 * Great site for working on conventions-fun too!** ||
 * Voice
 * [|Bit Strips]
 * [|Pixton] || Here is a list of comic creators--a fun way to get students in grades 3-6 to write. Think of the "F" in R.A.F.T. (format) and the use of voice and quotations in comic strips.
 * Word Choice

[|Visual Thesaurus] [|Very Short Stories] || Text Analyzer allows the students (or teacher) to copy and paste a selection of text into a box and have it analyzed for word choice, high frequency words, etc. A data-filled tool to get students to look at the "facts" of their writing.

Visual Thesaurus is a fun way to expand student word choice

Communicating a message in under 140 characters--the challenge is on for word choice. || [|Writing Fix Lessons] || The writing fix web site has lessons that use the R.A.F.T. process for writing in content areas. ||
 * R.A.F.T. ||