Picture prompts for poetry at PicLits!
January 21, 2009
PicLits provides you with interesting images and, if you need them, word prompts. It all starts with a picture they provide. If you don’t like the one that comes up, you can look for others. Then, your students provide the caption. The word prompts lend themselves to the poetic, so this is a great way to get students writing in that genre. All they need to do is drag and drop the words, or type in their own. The visual and vocabulary support make it ideal for EFL/ESL students. Students can then save what they write on PicLits, or put snapshots on a blog or social network, or email a link to the PicLits page.
If you’re looking for a good writing prompt, or something to add visual pizazz to writing in your class, give PicLits a shot. -ALICE MERCER
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Hi Alice: I am not sure how you found PicLits.com but thanks for the kudos and posting. Language arts teachers should be able to energize creative writing while at the same time teach basic writing skills such as grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, and even spelling.
In the “LEARN IT” section, we provide basic ideas and under the MASTER it, we offer a dozen poetry lesson plans.
Currently, the user chooses either DRAG-N-DROP or FREESTYLE as their means of writing. It is Free and the photos and words change daily except weekends. There is a rating system and space to comment so that a teachder could grade each students PicLit and make suggestions. Whatever you write, whether it be a caption, a sentence, a rhyme, a poem is called a “PicLit”.
thanks again
Terry Friedlander, founder
