Writing

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  Points of View Newspaper Report

  Witnesses to accidents can see different things. Read and listen to two witness reports of a skateboarding accident, and learn about how journalists structure newspaper reports and use verbs, adverbial phrases and pronouns to create an effect.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Creepy Verbs and Adverbs in Super Stories

  Transform a boring horror story into a bestseller by selecting effective verbs and adverbs to increase its impact and make it more exciting. Select illustrations that highlight the horror as the story of the Sea Cave unfolds.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Comic Book Edit

  Edit the comic book adventure called Bushfire to make the story more interesting. Choose a conclusion for the story and then improve the grammar by looking changing nouns to pronouns, by adding adverbs and choosing saying verbs.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Missing Pop Star Puzzle

  Work out what happened to the missing celebrity and write a newspaper article about the event. Lots of tips on improving your writing style.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Eerie Nouns and Adjectives

  A game that can help you to improve your use of nouns and adjectives. You get to be an editor who improves a fairly dull story into a bestselling horror story. Select great nouns, adjectives and illustrations to improve the story's impact.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Wonderful Words, Creative Stories about Space

  improve two simple sentences by adding descriptive words. Observe how your choices affect the animated images. Use your sentences as inspiration for a story about space. A good site for demonstrating how to write more interesting sentences.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Riddle of the Black Panther

  Track down a black panther reported to be prowling around a town. Interview witnesses and gather information from sources such as a website, an advertisement and a newspaper article. A good guide to writing a report.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Wonderful Words, Creative Stories Beach Theme

  An animated game where you can see how to add adjectives to make boring sentences into more interesting ones.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Elements of a Story

  Taking the story of Cinderella it explores the different 'ingredients' that make up a story. Looking at this site can help you with writing your own stories.

  Tablet-friendly

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  Paragraphs

  A game where you need to choose the text with the correct paragraphs. It uses Major Moustache a character from Children's BBC television. The exercises can help you to decide the best place for paragraph breaks in text.

  Flash

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  Factual Writing Leaflets

  Leaflets need to grab the reader's attention and tell them as much as possible with words and pictures. Choose the best text, pictures and title from multiple choice options to make your own.

  Flash

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  Instructions

  Choose from the multiple choice sentences to write your own instructions for simple tasks like making a sandwich and putting up a tent. This can help you to see how you need to think carefully when writing instructions.

  Flash

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  Communicating Ideas

  This website shows you how to design effective posters, newspapers and comics by going through the important elements of each. Later you can try out your own designs.

  Flash

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  Letters

  This site checks if you know how to set out a letter of complaint. Drag and drop from items that make up the letter and choose the best text from multiple choice options.

  Flash

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  Myths and Legends

  Make and print out your own comic strip. Choose your characters and make believe that they can talk to each other or think their own thoughts.

  Flash

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  Comment

  Use your commenting skills to see what is wrong with the newspaper headlines. Answers are multiple choice.

  Flash

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  Story Planning

  A literacy game which shows the importance of using the right words for your story. You need to choose suitable words to match the theme such as a ghost story, romantic story or spy story. It could give you ideas for writing your own story.

  Flash

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  Non-Fiction Game

  A game where you need to select an appropriate title, text and picture to suit three non-fiction types of writing: a children's book, a news item and a catalogue entry.