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A Thanksgiving Story

November 23, 2009November 23, 2009Kelly TenkelyLeave a Comment1870 views

What it is: A Thanksgiving Story is a site that lets your students star in a story all about Thanksgiving. Students fill in some blanks (Mad Libs style) and a Thanksgiving story is generated with students as the stars of the story. This is a quick but fun Thanksgiving activity for your students.

How to integrate A Thanksgiving Story into the classroom: Set up your classroom computers as a Thanksgiving publishing center where your students can quickly fill in the blanks and create a unique Thanksgiving story that stars them. Make sure that you have a way for students to print or email the story home when they are finished. The story would be a fun one for students to share at Thanksgiving dinner. If you have access to a computer lab, students could work on these independently in about 10 minutes.

Tips: I learned about A Thanksgiving Story from @cindybrock on Twitter. My PLN is the best!

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Inauguration Speech Generator

January 16, 2009Kelly Tenkely3 Comments3062 views

What it is: With President Obama’s Inauguration speech looming on the horizon, this site is worth a look. Inauguration Speech Generator is like a mad lib, fill in the blank that generates a speech for President Obama to say. 🙂 Students enter words in the blanks according to the part of speech that is requested and then read the speech they have written for our soon to be president.

How to integrate Inauguration Speech Generator into the classroom: This is a great lead in to teach students about the Inauguration of President Obama. It is also a fun way to practice those parts of speech! Students can fill in the blanks individually and share with a partner, or a speech can be generated as a whole class. This would be a fun thing to do right before the inauguration. Save the students version of the speech. They can compare and contrast their speech with the actual inauguration speech after viewing it.

Tips: The inauguration is supposed to be live on CNN, it would be fun to watch live but I suspect that Internet may be slow that day! Those of you with cable in the classroom take advantage!!

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Wacky Web Tales

October 1, 2007October 4, 2007Kelly TenkelyLeave a Comment3467 views

What it is: Wacky Web Tales are online mad libs for third grade and up.

How to integrate Wacky Web Tales into your classroom: As you are teaching parts of speech, use the Wacky Web Tales website as a place for students to practice and play with different parts of speech. Students can each create a Wacky Web Tale and share with other students. Students can also visit the Parts of Speech help for definitions and examples of each part of speech. This would be a great learning activity- students could use the Parts of Speech help to learn the definitions of different parts of speech. It is also a great practice website. Complete Wacky Web Tales individually or as a whole class using a projector.

Tips: Check the Wacky Web Tales website monthly for new tales.