This is such a fantastic site - it is amazing what is available out there! If you want to give your students motivation to write something, this is your site! It makes it possible to produce really lovely looking, professional e-picture books that you can then tweet, facebook or embed, using professional illustrations from a really wide range of artists. How can this be free? I don't know, but it is!
You can also go onto the site to read books that other people have written. The nice thing about this is that they are short, and illustrated with beautiful pictures, so you can use them even at low levels. Some are aimed at children, but others are definitely written for a more mature audience. Here's an example:
Fight off the doubts! by laurig on StorybirdYou could just send one of these a week to your learners to give them some extensive reading practice, or you could use one in class on a IWB for language work based on the content or (most obviously) narrative tenses. They're really inspiring! The only limitaton I can imagine is that they will appeal to younger learners and to a lot of adults, but teenagers may feel they're a bit patronising. You could get them to write books (maybe even bi-lingual ones) for younger kids in the school or siblings, perhaps?
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