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Looking for a fun way to practice the alphabet online? Maybe you want to help a child write a poem. Or do you know a teen who needs practice writing letters? ReadWriteThink has online tools that are designed to help.

Use the tip sheets listed below to find out how the tools help learning. You will get information about the technical requirements for each tool and how to use it, plus great ideas for additional activities.

ABC Match Screenshot

ABC Match
The ABC Match game challenges children to match letter cards and picture cards that begin with that letter. (Grades K–2; Ages 4–8)

Alphabet Organizer Screenshot

Alphabet Organizer
The Alphabet Organizer lets children create a calendar-style ABC chart or letter pages for an alphabet book. (Grades K–5; Ages 4–11)

 

Bio-Cube Screenshot

Bio-Cube
The Bio-Cube asks children to summarize information about a person for a biography or autobiography. The activity helps them learn how to identify and shorten key ideas. (Grades 3–12; Ages 8–18)

 

Book Cover Creator Screenshot

Book Cover Creator
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. (Grades K–8; Ages 4–14)

 

CD/DVD Cover Screenshot

CD/DVD Cover Creator
The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for notes and other information. (Grades K–12; Ages 4–18)

 

Character Trading Card Screenshot

Character Trading Cards
Children can use Character Trading Cards to answer questions about a book character’s appearance and actions, and to probe for thoughts, feelings, and motivations. (Grades 3–8; Ages 8–14)

 

Comic Creator Screenshot

Comic Creator
The Comic Creator invites children to compose their own comic strips and cartoons for learning and for fun! (Grades K–12; Ages 4–18)

 

Construct-a-Word Screenshot

Construct-a-Word
Construct-a-Word has children select single letters and two- or three-letter endings to form words. The online tool knows how many words can be formed with each ending, so children are challenged to keep going until they get them all. (Grades K–2; Ages 4–8)

Crossword Puzzle Screenshot

Crossword Puzzles for Children
Crossword Puzzles for Teens

The Crossword Puzzles tool lets children and teens choose from a selection of puzzles and solve them online. They can also create their own puzzles to solve online or print off. (Grades K–12; Ages 4–18)

 

Flip Book Screenshot

Flip Book
The Flip Book allows users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets. (Grades 3–12; Ages 8–18)

 

Fractured Fairy Tales Screenshot

Fractured Fairy Tales
The Fractured Fairy Tales tool lets children play with three familiar fairy tales, changing many things including setting, characters, point of view, and plot. (Grades 3–8; Ages 8–14)

 

Graphic Map Screenshot

Graphic Map
The Graphic Map allows children to chart the significant points related to a particular item or group of items, such as chapters in a book, amounts of money spent, events during a day, month, year, or life, or scenes in a play. (Grades 3–12; Ages 8–18)

Letter Generator Screenshot

Letter Generator
The Letter Generator shows children the key parts of a letter and lets them practice writing either a business or personal letter. (Grades 3–8; Ages 8–14)

 

Mystery Cube Screenshot

Mystery Cube
The Mystery Cube asks children to separate a mystery into six distinct elements. Using it, children begin to see how a writer constructs a mystery—and can try writing their own. (Grades 3–8; Ages 8–14)

 

Postcard Creator Screenshot

Postcard Creator
The Postcard Creator shows children the key parts of a postcard and allows them to create postcards of their own. (Grades K–8; Ages 4–14)

 

Profile Publisher Screenshot

Profile Publisher
The Profile Publisher invites teens to create magazine, yearbook, or online profiles for themselves or other real of imaginary people. (Grades 9–12; Ages 14–18)

 

Shape Poem Screenshot

Shape Poems
Shape poems, or poems that look like the things they describe, are a fun way to introduce children to poetry. The Shape Poems tool helps children write and print their poems in many different shapes from balloons to balls. (Grades K–5; Ages 4–11)

 

Stapleless Book
The Stapleless Book tool allows children to make an eight page book of their own, ideal for stories, notes, new words, and more. (Grades K–5?; Ages 4–11)

 

Timeline Screenshot

Timeline
The Timeline Tool allows users to create descriptive timelines of real or imaginary events. (Grades 6–12; Ages 12–18)

 

 

ReadWriteThink provides online, interactive tools for children and teens ages 4–18. These online tools require free browser plug-ins to work properly. Plug-ins can be downloaded from the Technical Support page.

 

 

 




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