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From http://www.piclits.com/faqs.aspx

PicLits is a website dedicated to creating and sharing PicLits. What is a PicLit? It is an engaging image with words placed on it to capture something about the image: its essence, story, or meaning. The website offers a selection of engaging images. Each image calls up a bank of words, organized by part of speech.

This website could be useful for English learners in several ways. First, learners can expand their vocabulary by exploring the word bank and also by suggesting new words to go with a given image. Building a PicLit could also be a good pre-writing activity, to get people thinking creatively and descriptively before starting on a longer creative writing piece.

PicLits is available at http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx. Choose from one of the images scrolling across near the top of the screen to call up a word bank.