Reading and Writing Activities :

• Infographic: “Seven Steps To The Perfect Story” (larryferlazzo.edublogs.org)

  

• GrammarCheck
  "It's totally free, checks for grammar and spelling mistakes, and gives instant feedback...
  How it Works :
  Write out your text as usual, in whatever word processing program you use.
  It’s a good idea to go over it yourself, first, to catch any stray words or thoughts and bring them in to order.
  Then, just head for the online grammar checker and enter your completed text into the text field above.
  Once you click the  button, all you need to do is to click an underlined spelling error, style suggestion, or grammar suggestion to see more options.
  Then apply corrections where you need them. It will check grammar usage and spelling and give you the final verdict..."
  (grammarcheck.net)

• Interactive writing !
  En salle informatique par deux
  "Write your dialogue on your notebook - Saluer le personnage et demander le temps qu’il fait - saluer et répondre - demander les vêtements qu’il ou… Pour lire la suite cliquez ici "
  (english-pe.over-blog.com)

• Can I Have a Word? (barbican.org.uk)
  Ideas and resources to inspire creative writing in middle- and high-school students.
  + "poems by leading poets, video animations, classroom activities and more."
  (Education World)

• "Ecriture créative d'un conte" : niveau B2
  - à adapter ou s'en inspirer pour le collège
  (Ac. Martinique)

  

• Possible Story Beginnings / Possible Story Endings
  (Primary Resources)

• Can I Have a Word? (barbican.org.uk)
  "Great site for creative writing...
  The site features four projects including the elements, the human body, the Odyssey, and changing voices.
  These four projects cover various areas of creative writing such as descriptive writing, conversational and narrative prose,
  creative character prose, and influential writing. Students learn to create these writing assignments by listening to new poems
  by such poets as Margot Henderson, Michael Rosen, and Valerie Bloom, watching stimulating visual presentations and participating in the classroom activities and ideas that are provided. Teachers will find worksheets and poems, classroom displays, teacher tips, and a link to download the Flash animation to their desktop for easy viewing in the classroom. Also included are profiles for all the poets featured on the site, top tips for writing, curriculum connections, and other resources. (Education World)

  

• Making sentences - Play the games (BBC)
  "Students can choose from six different text formats to punctuate and capitalize sentences, using their keyboards and the mouse. Choices include a formal letter, an email, a children's story, a report, a brochure, or a newspaper article."
  "This activity can be used to train students to give the correct intonation to sentences. Each text can be read and heard, and the students decide where to put the stops and when to use a capital letter. The exercise is simple, but if you encourage them to concentrate on the intonation, it can be quite useful. they can also discuss the different meanings a sentence can take if you put the stops in different places." (Christine Reymond - Infonews)

  

  
  

• LANGUAGE ARTS Mini-Lessons - Elementary (youth.net)

• Production écrite en classe de sixième - Projet pédagogique : le conte et ses personnages
  "Monica Curnelle, professeur d'anglais au Collège Gaston Domergue à Sommières dans le Gard vous présente un projet pédagogique complet, menée en interdisciplinarité avec le professeur de français. Le projet s'inscrit sur plusieurs séquences permet d'aborder plusieurs aspects linguistiques et culturels...
  Les élèves abordent Halloween et Christmas en passant par le Gingerbread Man, Shrek et le film The Nightmare before Christmas de Tim Burton avant d'écrire et illuster leur propres contes en anglais et fabriquer, et déguster, des Gingerbread Men!"
  (Ac. Montpellier)

• Notetaking Systems (sas.calpoly.edu)
  5 Methods :
  The Cornell Method
  The Outline Method
  The Mapping Method
  The Charting Method
  The Sentence Method

• Note taking skills - from lectures and readings (education.ex.ac.uk)
  
  

• Reading and note-taking - with interactive activities (elanguages.ac.uk)

• Literary Elements Mapping - interactive
  Graphic organisers : Character Map / Conflict Map / Resolution Map / Setting Map
  (readwritethink.org)

  

• Plot Diagram - interactive (readwritethink.org)

  

• 1000 Ideas for Writing (timesaversforteachers.com)

• Writing Prompts/Journal Topics (canteach.ca)
  What is... / What if... / What do you think... / What...misc. / How... / I wish... /
  Describe... / When... / Which... / Who... / Where... / Why... / Misc...
  
  
• How to write a book review (teachit.co.uk)
  "A comprehensive list of questions to consider when writing a book review."

• Fact Fragment Frenzy (readwritethink.org)
  "aids students in learning the importance of finding the words in sentences and paragraphs that contain the facts they need
  for compiling their research. They practice by pulling important words from a text over to a virtual notebook (shown at left).
  The students then move to putting those notes into their own words, avoiding plagiarism."
  
  
  
  
  
• PHONEMS vs GRAPHEMS (Yvan BAPTISTE - Académie de Montpellier)
  'What you say or hear (sound)' vs 'What you write or read (spelling)'

• PHONEMS in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Yvan BAPTISTE - Académie de Montpellier)
  
  
• He Said She Said (spwickstrom.com)
  214 Words to Use Instead of 'Said'

• Aide à l'expression écrite (languagelearningresourcecenter.org)
  Introduction / Description / Interpretation / Personal reactions / Emergency kit
  

• Picture stories - "They "include pictures of words mixed in with the lines of the story."
  - à retravailler de façon à faire trouver les mots remplacés par des dessins
  "Sunny Joins the Herd" - "Frog Said" - "The Rainbow Garden" - "With My Senses" -
  "Snow" - "Better Than Ever" - "Grandma's Game" -
  "The Lost Jacket" - "Bunny Hunt" - "Mouse and the Moon" - "Where Is Amy?" - "Will's Circles"
  (Education World)
  
  
  
  

• Mots de liaison et formules à utiliser pour organiser son expression écrite
  - exercices interactifs (Yvan Baptiste)

• Writing - Methodological approach : Links and activities (absolutenglish-972)

  
  
  

• Sentence combining exercises (grammar.ccc.commnet.edu)
  - "combine to form sentences with only one main clause; increasing difficulty" :
  First Quiz on Sentence Combining
  Second Quiz on Sentence Combining
  Third Quiz on Sentence Combining

• Quiz on Sentence Types (grammar.ccc.commnet.edu)

• Guide to Grammar and Writing (grammar.ccc.commnet.edu)
  - with interactive quizzes
  
  

• The Notorious Confusables - interactive (grammar.ccc.commnet.edu)
  ex : " _________ going to help me with this?
  Whose
  Who's"
  
  
  
  

• Cliches - UPDATED
  
  
  
  
  
• Writing tips : Supporting Paragraphs -
  "They develop the main idea of your essay.
  - How do I write them?
  - Examples of transition words that can help you to link your paragraphs together."
  (www2.actden.com)

• Silly Sentence Machine :
  "Create a "Silly Sentence" by clicking on a picture from each column" and listen to it. (pbskids)
  
  
  
  
  
• Mystery Stories - Building Literacy with a Twist (webenglishteacher) :
  "What better way to build reading comprehension skills than with a good mystery?
  In every story readers must understand characters, identify causes and effects, note sequence, and draw inferences.
  Here are some ideas to help you incorporate the reading and writing of mysteries in your classroom."

• Reading & Writing Activities : Interactive exercises and tests / With exercises to do with a word processor :
  Aibo: a robot (.doc) - A trip to Dublin - Cross-cultural Inquiry: Spain-Ireland - Cinderella - Drunk drivers (.doc) - Eminem's biography (mistakes) (.doc) - Food in Spain - Inside Your House (.doc) - Jamie: a very stubborn child (.doc) - Love is .... - Musicians: Mozart, Elvis, etc.. (.doc) - Penpals & Hobbies (.doc) - Penpal message (.doc) - Professions (.doc) - Pubs in Derry (Nothern Ireland) - Sixth Sense (the film) (.doc) - St. Valentine's Day - Teens and Birth Control - The Lion and The Mouse (Present Tenses) - What did you do last at Christmas? - etc...
  (isabelperez)

• The Dialectizer - (rinkworks.com)
  "Convert English text to any of several comic dialects." :
  Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, Pig Latin, or Hacker.
  
  
  

PowerPoint presentations :

• Extending a simple sentence - PowerPoint Presentation (Primary Resources)

• Writing : PowerPoint Presentations (grammar.ccc.commnet.edu) :
  Clauses: Essential Building Blocks
  Avoiding Sentence Fragments
  Avoiding Run-on Sentences
  Diagramming Sentences
  Paragraph (basic structure)
  The Parts of Speech
  Sentences (basic parts)...

• How to set out an Informal letter (Primary Resources)

How to... :

• PERSUADING :
  
  
  • Persuasive Writing Mat  (Rhian Walton)  - (primaryresources.co.uk)
    Use the picture below, for there are some mistakes on the picture from Primary Resources.

    

• IMPROVING SENTENCES :
  
  
• Improving Sentences (Robert Baird) - (primaryresources.co.uk)
  
  
  
  
• WRITING A NEWSPAPER REPORT :
  
  
• Newspaper Report Guide
  Click on ENGLISH: Text Level: Non-Fiction: Newspapers & Journalistic Writing
  (Primary Resources)
  
• Newspaper reports: A writer’s guide
  Click on English / Newspapers
  (Primary Resources)

• WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER :

  Writing a Research Paper - Writing an introduction + Body paragraphs and integrating sources + Writing a conclusion + LINKS (owl.english.purdue.edu)   Writing research papers - Writing Tutorials - Interactive exercises Exercise 1: Introduction to writing a research paper (Demo) Exercise 2: What makes a good research topic? (Demo) Exercise 3: Types of sources (Demo) Exercise 4: Evaluating internet resources (choose # 1, new) Exercise 5: Sorting notes for your research paper (Matching #1, new) Exercise 6: Outlining (Demo) Exercise 7: Formatting your research paper (Demo) Exercise 8: Writing APA-style references (Demo, 4p) Exercise 9: Writing reference entries (upgrading #1 , new) Exercise 10: Paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism (choose #1 ) Exercise 11: Summarizing lengthy material for your research paper (choose #1) Example of an Outline for a Research Paper Example of Research Paper (This is a PDF file) (resources.jjay.cuny.edu)

• ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION
  9. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.
  10. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
  11. Use the active voice.
  12. Put statements in positive form.
  13. Omit needless words.
  14. Avoid a succession of loose sentences.
  15. Express co-ordinate ideas in similar form.
  16. Keep related words together.
  17. In summaries, keep to one tense.
  18. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
  (bartleby.com)

• Expressing (listes d'expressions) :
  agreeing and disagreeing - expressing capacity - insinuating - allowing... (Ghislaine Wulles)

• Writing to argue, advise, persuade - worksheets (teachit.co.uk)
  
  

• Extending a sentence
  "Here is a task that shows you how you can develop a simple sentence like 'I made tea.' into a detailed text."
  (daily-english-activities.blogspot.com)

  

• Document Analysis Worksheets (archives.gov)
  - designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration.
  Written Document - Photograph - Cartoon - Poster - Map - Artifact - Motion Picture - Sound Recording
  
  
  

• Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
  (owl.english.purdue.edu)

• HOW TO COMMENT UPON A DOCUMENT :

  • How to describe documents with pictures (Alain GAYER - Ac. Bordeaux)
    
    
    
    

   

  • HOW TO COMMENT ON A DOCUMENT (Pauline GIROUD - Alsace)
    

   

  • HOW TO COMMENT UPON A DOCUMENT (englishonline)

   

• Présenter un document iconographique - 3 pages (Yvan BAPTISTE)
  + 80 activités interactives (franglish.fr)

• HOW TO COMMENT ABOUT A VISUAL AID (englishonline)
  
  
  
  

• HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR THOUGHTS :
  AGREEING - DISAGREEING - ASKING FOR INSTRUCTIONS OR FOR HELP - PROPOSING - EXPRESSING A PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW
  (englishonline)
  
  
  
  

• #13 TALKING ABOUT YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE
  Peut servir de trame.
  (JC Viel)

• Talking about your work experience - Pour parler de votre stage - Fiche Lexique
  (pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais)

• HOW TO WRITE A DIALOGUE :
  
  
  

  • How to write a dialogue (englishingambier.over-blog.com)
    
    
    
  • How to write a dialogue (Florinda Fernandes - Calvados)

   

  • Writing a dialogue - A worksheet sent by Béa Monnier (Ac. Orléans-Tours)
    
    

    WRITING A DIALOGUE (1) WRITING STAGE DIRECTIONS   WRITING A DIALOGUE ( 2 ) 1- PERSONALITY : useful adjectives 2- Writing stage directions with ADVERBS   WRITING A DIALOGUE - BODY LANGUAGE(3) Hearing - Sight - Touch

• Write letters and emails :
  • How to write letters and e-mails (englishingambier.over-blog.com)
    

    No link

    
    

Symbols :

• Symboles utilisés pour remplacer des textes : Histoires, Nouvelles, Recettes de cuisine, etc -
  On pourrait proposer les symboles et faire retrouver les phrases correspondantes. (symbolworld)
  
  

Figures of speech :

• Homer Simpson's Figures of Speech
  - with a Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms.
  (grammar.about.com)

  

Transitions :

• 10 Types of Transitions
  "Writing is simply a matter of expressing ideas, but as we all know, it’s not so simple after all. One challenge is to coherently connect those ideas.
  This post lists ten categories of words and phrases one can employ to signal a transition, with several examples for each type."
  1. Addition 2. Comparison 3. Concession 4. Contrast 5. Consequence 6. Emphasis 7. Example 8. Sequence 9. Space 10. Summary
  (dailywritingtips.com)

News :

• How to write a newspaper article (galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk)

• News 2003 (texts with symbols) - On pourrait donner les symboles et faire retrouver les phrases. (symbolworld)