Visit this site and sign your pupils up with their own personal and free e-mail account that they can access from anywhere in NZ or the world. Now your students can write to whom they like, when they like - even friends in their own class or different classes in the school Try pairing up a reluctant writer with a good typist to help motivate children who find writing difficult. It is paid for by on-site sponsors. Click on the Hotmail Icon to go there now. Using Hot Mail Visit this live linked xtra site with live links to most schools in new Zealand that have web pages.
Some sites even have personal email boxes for individual students.
The email should include positive comments about the site they have visited. Each student asks for a reply and supplies their personal hotmail email address. Writing and Reading Book Reviews Have your students visit the Readathon Site where they will find a section that encourages them to write book reviews to share with other pupils OnLine. The snare here is that their review will be actually published Online for others students to read and enjoy. A great site to include as part of your MS Readathon or Reading Week.