The use of technology can enhance the writing process in many ways. It can help give ideas and focus to pre-writing. It has huge implementation opportunities in the publishing phase. It can extend the final product to include a much more visually dimensional product..

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sample writing prompt:

Have students take authentic pictures to generate writing topics. This picture was imported into Kidpix and then embellished to illustrate "If I were President"

I Spy - www.scholastic.com/ispy

Save the picture from the site to create a writing prompt.

Mystery prompt

Use inspiration to web/map out student story ideas. There are numerous ready-made templates in Inspiration. Here is the sample pictured here.

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Use the online/web-based tool to create a writing rubric.

Draft on paper

Develop thoughts
Type rough draft

Edit, correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation

Not only can you type your story with a Word Processor but you can extend the project to incorporate image, motion & sound. Here is a sample of a KidPix3 movie of a story about a dream.