Scholastic Story Starters

Tracy introduced me a new website from scholastic for writing activity.

Scholastic Story Starters

The cute part is that the student get to write according to their luck. What I mean is they need to pull the lever of a wheel. From that they will get a mixed up match of things they need to write. For example, I got:
"write a suspenseful story about a babbling traveler who plays in an intergalactic football league".

If it sounds hard, I can just pull the lever again or change any part of the requirement, like instead of "who plays in an intergalactic football league" I got next "who lives on a space station".

Then I can choose in what format I want to write in. A notebook, letter, newspaper or postcard. I can insert pictures!

With that, I can start writing my article or essay or letter (depends on what the teacher wants - format that want to be learned).

The drawing however need to be scribbled. It has option like the paint only this one has less option. This might be, because they don't want problem with copyright pictures taken from other people websites.

Then when I am done I can either print it or even download it into my computer. From there, they can share it among themselves in edmodo.com.

I have not started yet. I will definitely soon because I have a lesson on writing a report. So most probably, for creative writing for introduction purposes I can use Story Starter to write a newspaper report. Then, I move on to a more formalised writing. The objective is for them to get cognitively ready for the real report writing.