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Hints and tools to help ESL students with their writing assignment.
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The Legend of Saint George and the Dragon
Dragons don’t write, knights do!
Saint George’s assignment 2015
You must create a piece of writing You can write a poem or a fiction short
story You can also write a flash story (about 50
words)
You are free to choose the content
You should be original, creative and put all your writing skills into action
(interesting content, accurate vocab and grammar, correct spelling and
coherence)
get inspired but don’t cheat! Saint Google can help you but cannot work for you! Try by finding a beginning of the story and then you
continue, don’t cheat, St Google can also split and tell the teacher the source! There are lots of tools to detect plagiarism.
http://www.googlepoetics.com/
get inspired by 1 word!
http://www.oneword.com/
get inspired by music and images!
http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/
do a bit of brainstorming!
organize the ideas that come out!
http://popplet.com/
make stories out of photos!htt
p://5card.cogdogblog.com/
steal … like an artist!
Story starters:
steal the beginning!
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
get prompts to start your work!
http://corbettharrison.com/writers_notebooks.html%23topics
get inspired by other stories!
http://www.100wordstory.org/category/stories/
hints to follow when you’re stuck:
http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
interesting writing proposals
http://www.lightningbug.com.au/Activity%20page/activity%20page.htm
do you need names for your characters?
http://www.babynamescountry.com/ http://www.last-names.net/
check vocabulary Thesaurus Wordreference
grammar grammarly
and spelling select the the language English
(UK) in your word processor
sourcesImages:
Slide #1: http://www.llull.cat/offices/ny/noticies_detall.cfm?id=29745&url=books-and-roses-sant-jordi-2013-in-new-york.htmlslide #2: http://www.googlepoetics.com/Slide #6: http://www.marketingdirecto.com/actualidad/checklists/6-pasos-para-hacer-que-una-sesion-de-brainstorming-sea-verdaderamente-productiva /Slide #7: http://howardogawa.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/brain-storming-groupthink-echo-chamber-cant-we-just-all-agree /Slide #8: http://www.dejoost.com/dejoost-inspiration-gallery-1 /Slide #9: http://codex73.com/tag/steal-ideas /Slide #11: http://thepagemistress.com/category/writing-prompts /Slide #13: http://relationshiprealities.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/istock_000007803228xsmall1. jpgSlide #15: http://www.babynamescountry.com /
Sources of inspiration: http://www.scoop.it/t/english-stuff/?tag=writing
Main source: http://www.slideshare.net/ShellTerrell/motivated-to-write-inspiring?from=new_upload_email
Mónica VallinCol·legi Sant Miquel dels Sants
@MonVall