Piclits for Creative Writing

Piclits is a great easy to use tool to encourage students to write creatively.  It revovles around attention grabbing images and word banks for writing a caption, a short paragraph or a short poem/story. Word lists are categorized by nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and a universal list.

Piclits offers a fun way to learn new vocabulary and play with word forms and sentence structure.


See the full PicLit at PicLits.com


There are two options for writing: one is by dragging and dropping words unto the picture and the second is by clicking on the freestyle button. You can save and edit a Piclit if you sign up. If you don't sign up you can still save your Piclit by using the Snipping tool in windows (here is a short video explaining how to do it).


Application in the classroom:

• Students find a picture that relates to current events and write about it
• Students write a short poem 
• Students write events that happened before a story that they read
• Students write about a different ending to a story that they read
• Students create a slogan/banner for a campaign
• Students find a picture that relates to the way they feel and write about it

If you have any more ideas, write to me!