http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr144.shtml
Journal Writing Every Day: Teachers Say It Really Works! From Education World
writing K - 12
http://www.mcrel.org/resources/plus/creative.asp
Articles about Creative Writing for kids.
"The one and only place on the Web to get hundreds of free quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Looking for lesson plans? Many of these worksheets can serve as lessons."
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT
Help Your Child Learn to Write Well
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/writing_plans.html
http://www.scholastic.com/instructor/curriculum/
langarts/writing/sample.htm
The 5 paragraph essay fifth graders and up
http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units
/1981/4/81.04.11.x.html
This article is particularly addressed to educators dealing
with developmentally disabled students, but reluctant learners
can also be included. The author addresses why problem learning patterns exist, and then offers ways to encourage learning and creativity, especially as it involves the writing process, with strategies and assignments.
6-Trait Analytical Assessment Model Web Site Great site for lesson ideas etc.
THE WRITING PROCESS STEPS:
http://users.loa.com/~gcaffert/Steps.htm
THE FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY WIZARD:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/
Before you forget, bookmark this site! Covering format,
drill,
writing prompts, tips on technique, evaluations, revisions,
getting started--you name it, it's here. All you need
to devel-
op an excellent module for writing essays in middle and
high
school.
Join over 200,000 people and CReAte Your FREE Newspaper or test-surf an example CRAYON newspaper
An elementary grammar
Story Quest with great kids links to writing.
grammar_original.htm
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Welcome to Kids on the Net, a trAce Online Writing Community web site. Writing by children at home and at school all over the world.
http://tlc.ai.org/lessons/writeplp.htm
This lesson plan explores persuasive, narrative, and informative writing forms.
NickNacks can help you explore exciting virtual horizons of learning via the Internet. Our primary goal is to encourage telecollaboration among educators and students around the world. Whether you want to participate in a telecollaboration or start your own, there's information at NickNacks to help you and exciting projects to join.
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Print your own iron on directions
http://desktoppub.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa092597.htm
Kids Publishing
http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
Fishing Hole Magazine Kids Corner
http://www.4fishing.com/kids/index.html
Info Granny: Writer's Links
http://www.execpc.com/~marjb/index.html
Kids' Writing from Practically Everywhere
http://www.kidnews.com/
Young Writer's
Club
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/ywc.html
COLLAB-O-WRITE:
http://library.advanced.org/tq-admin/month.cgi
Students can choose to post their own stories, finish
the
ending of an already posted storyline, or write along
to
an illustration. Also find story starters on this page.
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ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS:
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm
As well as writing process instructions, students will
find
clear steps for writing various kinds of essays.
ADDRESS WRITING ACTIVITY:
http://www.members.home.net/crafts4kids/benvelope.gif
Use the template to print out envelopes and follow direct-
ions for creative student practice on writing addresses.
CRAYON--CREATE YOUR OWN NEWSPAPER:
http://crayon.net/
Step-by-step instructions will take your class through
creating their own newspaper. Samples are included for their review. If
you have not yet considered creating a class newspaper, you might want
to think of this activity for a year-end project; it would make a fine
record and memento of your classroom and their various escapades, as well
as show off your students' creative talents.
A PARAGRAPH A WEEK -- YEARLY PROGRAM:
http://www.knownet.net/~ackley/paragraph/par_week_program.html
These paragraph activities can be used in several ways--as
journaling topics throughout the year, as class examinations
of various types of paragraphs, as story starters, or
as homework assignments to create excellent writing habits.While the subjects
per week follow a logical progression and include holiday topics, many
can be used out of sequence as well.
JOURNAL WRITING TOPICS:
http://www.cgocable.net/~rayser/jourtops.txt
If you are running a bit short on journaling ideas, here
is a whole list of possibilities.
Language Arts lesson plans that include writing
http://www.writeenvironment.com/linksto.html
These links are provided for your convenience to help
you locate additional tools and resources for teaching writing. They are
categorized by the kinds of resources they provide.
http://k-6educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa100100a.htm
Journal Writing
Teaching Narrative Writing using picture books!
http://www.mikids.com/teacher.html
ABC'S OF THE WRITING PROCESS:
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/
IMPLEMENTING THE WRITING PROCESS:
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/fiss/newpage1.htm
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/fiss/mini-les.htm
INDEX OF GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS:
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
This one has it all; try out the many indexed graphic
organ-
izers to see which one works best for your students.
They all
include diagrams and examples, with links for further
explora-
tion.
WRITING PROMPTS AND JOURNAL TOPICS:
http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/prompts.html
What is the best advice you ever received? What would
happen if there were no television? What is the worst thing parents can
do to their children? How about the best? These are just a few prompts
off the lineup at this site, perfect for middle to high school starters.
The site has some Canadian-only references, but they can easily be adapted
to pretty much any country.
WRITING PROMPTS, GRADES 1-8:
http://www.everydayspelling.com/workout/prompts
/promptsndx.html
The premise behind these sets of writing prompts is that
regular writing exercises will make students better
spellers. Whether you want to use them for spelling
or
simply for writing exercises in and of themselves, the
activities pretty much cover all forms of writing, from
grade one through to grade eight.
STORY STARTERS:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/1213/starters.html
Find excellent writing topics for K-3 students, along
with a few great tips on getting children geared up
for writing.
PIZAZZ:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
Language Arts and English teachers--bookmark this site...
It offers an incredible array of creative writing activities
to use in your classroom. It was written as a resource for ESL teachers,
to whom it would certainly be worth referencing, but its radius easily
extends to
encompass all Language Arts teachers.
