The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
![Essay Map](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/921_0.jpg?h=51a0c963&itok=MOgpIf37)
![Fractured Fairy Tales](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/922_0.jpg?h=51a0c963&itok=CycEmbdP)
The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.
![Mystery Cube](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/925.jpg?h=51a0c963&itok=np8F50QC)
The Mystery Cube helps students identify and summarize story elements in this popular genre. It can be used as a postreading or prewriting activity.
![Bio Cube](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/927_0.jpg?h=51a0c963&itok=VL6cTA1T)
Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
![Trading Card Creator](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/928.jpg?h=51a0c963&itok=jCGLxEXy)
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
![Diamante Poems](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/931.png?h=0280284a&itok=xzliWApe)
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
![Word Family Sort](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/932.jpg?h=05638912&itok=u_EuHbR3)
![AcrosticPoem](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2021-06/AcrosticPoem.jpg?h=e5805e83&itok=wWbopsel)
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
![Theme Poems](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/935.jpg?h=6941a612&itok=Ep3aVho4)
Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
![Alphabet Organizer](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/939.jpg?h=3f5731af&itok=XVJxlsTE)
![Persuasion Map](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/940.jpg?h=73541a1f&itok=J-tkDidN)
The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
![Flip-a-Chip](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/942.jpg?h=73541a1f&itok=APOcDaoN)
The Flip-a-Chip activity provides hands-on practice with affixes and roots, and also promotes comprehension through structural analysis and vocabulary in context.
![Eye on Idioms](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/943.jpg?h=6ea8326e&itok=Iv2uRTyo)
![Timeline](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/958.jpg?h=fbf4b26c&itok=KOBc-iuZ)
Students generate descriptive timelines and can include images in the description.
![Letter Generator](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/959.jpg?h=f3678831&itok=RFJU0Fu4)
The Letter Generator is a useful tool for students to learn the parts of a business or friendly letter and then compose and print letters for both styles of correspondence.
![Picture Match](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/960_0.jpg?h=73541a1f&itok=_enar2TM)
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.
![Construct-a-Word](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/961_0.jpg?h=51a0c963&itok=FFms-jd0)
Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.
![Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/8_0.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=HI6vQNXt)
![Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/9_0.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=bqexLZAA)
![The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/41_3.jpg?h=ea746901&itok=0zCehGmh)