Storybird QuickWrites

By Edith

 Today we learnt about a great website called 'Storybird.com'.

We are going to use this once a week for digital quickwrites, as not everyone in our class has success with writing with a pencil or pen... we find it easier on a device.

By Stevii

The topic for this week was: "There's a monster in my...".  Everyone in class had the same 100 words to use.  Some of us struggle to find the words to use when we have to write - this was great because the words were already there for us... we just had to create our own response.

By Lani

Those of us who love to write found it exciting and a challenge - because some words that we wanted to use weren't there.  We had to think really hard about how we put the words together.

A tip we learnt was that each line should make sense on it's own.
We found out that reading our work out aloud to ourselves helped us hear when we should use a new line.
We also realised that we can create impact by having short lines and long lines!

By Stevii

We had some fantastic output - that really painted a picture for our audience.
What do YOU think about some of these examples?  Check out our blogs for our own poems...