PIC-LITS use of beautiful photography along with the ability to create poems, sentences, paragraphs is engaging for students. Teachers and students alike remark at the ease of use and how much they love it for the classroom. A wonderful collaboration of literacy and photography for the classroom teacher!

I have used PIC-LITS in the past for 16 word memoirs. The students have found the pictures thought-provoking and intriguing.  PIC-LITS allowed me to provide a unique way to create poetry and spark new ideas for writing.

PIC-LITS has become a staple assessment in my Enriched English 10 class. It gives students the opportunity to choose words from the readings that stand out to them and then find a way to illustrate their individually chosen quotes. This helps with the understanding of the story as well as commitment to memory. I really enjoy the variety of images available and that no citations are needed since the images are owned by the site. The PIC-LIT assignment also gives students a preview to citing information correctly. Students have really enjoyed this activity and assessment!

I am an ESL educator in Richardson Independent School District in Texas, and I will be presenting about PIC-LITS next month in our district’s virtual online institute. I volunteered to showcase PIC-LITS after I learned about it because it is an incredible tool to use with our ESL students to help engage them in writing and learning English, and I’m very excited to show it to the teachers, and I would like to be as knowledgeable as possible when I present.

I am a teacher who is always in search of resources that will help expand my students learning experience beyond the classroom walls. While looking for poetry writing resources, I came came across PIC-LITS while searching the web. It was exactly what we needed for our poetry writing project. If you are looking for a website that is fun, engaging and effective for growing your students writing skills, piclits.com is the site both you and your kids will enjoy and grow with.

This site provides a very easy way to encourage students who are beginning to read and write English to see themselves as writers. The interface of drag and drop from word lists that are sorted into part of speech lists is brilliant.

I have used PIC-LITS, personally, as a creativity tool; however, I find that it also helps me in the classroom. I spend a lot of time talking about adjectives and adverbs in my College Basic Writing classes. These students are “relearning” many writing concepts they have not used in years. PIC-LITS allows them to chose adjectives and adverbs so that they learn them in a fun and creative way. Once they get the idea, we move to the freestyle view, and they use the words they have learned for their own sentences. My students like the ease of use while learning and the picture prompts to get them started. This is a great product in and out of the classroom. The only problem is you might get addicted. 🙂

I am in a MEd program with SNHU and we are exploring storytelling sites.  I really appreciated your site and its multiple potential uses in the classroom.  We were given an assignment to use a storytelling site in a way that related the lesson on storytelling and education technology / technology integration.  I think your site could be used for creating exit tickets, goal sheets, vision boards, story creation, small group presentations…. etc.  I liked the DRAG-N-DROP as well as FREESTYLE feature and its overall ease of use.  – Thanks for your site and its idea generating / creative potential for teachers and students/others.  Have a great day – love your site! v/r.

I used to use PIC-LITS in 2008 when I was working at a school for the deaf. I went looking for it this morning (13 years later!) and was thrilled to see it was up and running again! I used it immediately with my 15-year-old Deaf student who was struggling with a poetry assignment. My students are all visual learners and language/vocabulary is challenging. This is so PERFECT-I love the upgrade. Thank you so much I’m so happy you didn’t give up on PIC-LITS and I’m happy I didn’t give up on it either.