PIZZAZ.....WRITING ROULETTE

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/roulette.html

Spin the wheel, see what you find...

The following sites contain words and word games that can be used as supplementary resources or story-sparkers for authors of all ages. (Also see Picture Prompts.)

  • Cobuild's Word Watch
  • Cobuild's Idiom a Day
  • Comenius Idioms, along with Previous Idioms and Future Idiom.
  • Graffitti Wall from Dave's ESL Cafe.
  • iTools Internet tools for language.
  • Message in a Bottle
  • Monsters - Real or Imagined?
  • Pseudodictionary Send in and read words that are not in a "traditional" dictionary. Obscenities not permitted.
  • Reverse Dictionary You type in a definition, and Casey's dictionary will tell you which word you are trying to think of!
  • Rhyming Dictionary Enter and word and get a list of words that rhyme with it.
  • Webster's Online Dictionary and Thesaurus Type in a word and get a definition or synonym.
  • Word SynOpps Word games with synonyms and antonyms.
  • Word Puzzles Use all the words you find in the puzzle in the piece you are writing.
  • Word Web Play Word Web and use the words that you discover in your writing. Challenging vocabulary.
  • Yahoo's directory of dictionaries upon dictionaries.

    PIZZAZ! ||| OPPortunities in ESL

    Leslie Opp-Beckman, Technology Coordinator and ESL Instructor
    E-mail: leslieob@uoregon.edu
    5212 University of Oregon, American English Institute
    Eugene, Oregon 97403-5212 USA
    Leslie Opp-Beckman, copyright 1994-2003. Permission to copy and distribute for in-class, non-profit use only.
    URL: http://www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
    This page last updated: 13 August 2003