Tech and Take

Here are some ways to connect ideas to a picture. Your ideas are your words and you can make them into an image. You can type in text. First it will looklike a text box. The little green circle allows you to rotate your words. If you wanted to make a flower you would start with a circle and then type the words for your flower petals. All you would need to do is rotate the words and move them to your circle. You can also use shape tools to make an image. Make a variety of shapes and fill them in with a color. One idea is to use a circle to make a turkey body. Using shapes to make the face and then have students generate what they are thankful for. Type them in a text box and then rotate to make feathers for the turkey.

www.storyit.com
This site has many different resources for stories. You could go to story starters select a topic. It will print a picture sometimes it will have text and sometimes it won't. You can print out a word list with lines for both primary and secondary. Has borders for any holiday you want. You can make pages with graphics and lines for students to write their own story.