Free teacher web sites for English topic ‘Text - Imaginary, fantasy, adventure’

Interesting little story-start generator, using simple drop-down menus to get your writers' juices going.

External link: Adventure story - story start

Interesting little story-start generator, using simple drop-down menus to get your writers' juices going.

External link: Funny story - story start

Various online texts, often illustrated. Includes fantasy texts and parables. You could use them as they are or copy them into your interactive white board software for editing or modelling, etc.
The site does seem to have a few adverts knocking around but so far we haven't seen anything awkward popping up.

External link: Mixture of online texts

• suitable for class use

Range of quality animated stories and rhymes from the CBBC site.

External link: Online animated stories

• suitable for class use

Interesting little story-start generator, using simple drop-down menus to get your writers' juices going.

External link: Space story - story start

Interesting little story-start generator, using simple drop-down menus to get your writers' juices going.

External link: Spooky story - story start

Set of useful activities from Lancs NGfL that link out to the full Treasure Island text online. When you have read the text you can use the resources, which include two online multiple-choice quizzes.

External link: Treasure Island - adventure story text

• suitable for teachers’ personal use

This simple online application lets children write a comic strip with a reasonable selection of backgrounds, characters and props. Writing is a step-by-step process and they will need to familiarise themselves with the tool before being asked to produce anything purposeful. A bit of planning ahead and they will produce some great work with this. Probably ideal for those reluctant boys...

External link: Writing a comic strip online

• suitable for class use