One Word–Save the Word August 23, 2009
Posted by anne marie in ELA.Tags: ELA
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I stumbled across this great site that has intrigued me, called One Word . The premise is simple– when you click the go button one word will appear on the screen and you have 60 seconds to write about the word. This would be a very nice, fun, engaging activity to motivate students to practice writing skills. As the site states “don’t think. just write.”
I also wanted to mention another site that I find to be very interesting and that is Save The Words. The premise is that you chose a word to “adopt” and ultimately “save”. You click on one of the words that appears on the screen and anther text box will appear with it’s definition, a sentence using the word and the option for you to adopt the word. Very clever!!! I know a Middle School ELA teacher who visits this site once a week with her classes to help increase their vocabulary awareness. She assigns extra credit if students actually adopt words and incorporate these words into their writing assignments– how cooool!!! ENJOY!
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