Writing

1. By Grade Level - The Writing Source - Pick your grade level for topics.
2. Character Development - Mapping Activity to help understand the characters of stories
3. Compare and Contrast Rubric - detailed
4. Cursive: Lowercase - Alphabet Animation - To see the animation, move your mouse over a letter on this page. (from the site, Handwriting for Kids)
5. Five Paragraph Essay - At this site, you will find the information you need to learn how to write the essay as well as some writing prompts to help you develop skill.
6. Expository Essays:
   1. Expository Writing - Eight different examples of expository organizational patterns
   2. Expository Writing Prompts - 11 writing prompts
   3. A Lesson in Expository Writing -The Personal Touch: - This lesson uses examples of such communication as a springboard for practice in expository writing.
   4. The Expository Essay - Examples of expository essays
   5. Expository Writing Tips! - The information was taken from "Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test" by Jane Bell Kiester available through Maupin House Publishing.
   6. Expository Writing Plan - Use this information to help create your essays.
7. Goodnight Stories - Stories you can see, fill-in, decide, finish, or hear. Creative endings are printed on the site if they meet the webmaster's criteria which is stated on the page. Primary grade level.
8. Graphic Organizers - several examples of how to use graphic organizers in brainstorming or pre-writing activities
9. Ideas for Writing Poetry in the Classroom
   1. Acrostic Poems for Children
   2. Acrostics Poems Submitted by Children
10. Journal Jars - Create a journal jar for each student! Prompts are given at the site and can be reproduced.
11. Journal Jars - How to Make a Journal Jar by Merle O'Brien,
12. The Journal Jar- Writing Journals - - The book of me! Great ideas!
13. Letter Writing Practice - Learn techniques to help you write letters.
14. Main Character Questionnaire - Fill this out to discover things about the main character you are creating or have read about.
15. Narrative Essays :
    1. Multiple Paragraph Essay - Pointers on writing an essay.
    2. Narrative Essay - Article and help on writing narrative essay.
    3. Step by step guide - Guide on writing an essay.
    4. Narrative Writing Prompts - Elementary School
    5. Student Writing Tools Handbook - Transitions, rubrics, grammar, citations, and more
    6. Template for writing a narrative - Scaffolding guide for students
16. Paragraph A Week - A yearly writing program
17. Paragraph Punch - This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic paragraph.
18. Persuasive writing
    1. Can you Convince me? - Lesson plan
    2. Graphic Organizer - scaffolding aid for your students as they plan their essay
    3. How are They Selling It? - students read three advertisements and evaluate the type of persuasive writing being employed
    4. Persuasive Writing Prompts used in past Writing Assessments in Tennessee - Grade 5 ; Grade 8 ; Grade 11
    5. Persuasive Writing Prompts from a home schooling site
    6. Scholastic's Writing Workshop - You already spend a lot of time trying to persuade your parents or teachers to allow you to watch more TV or do less homework. Now you can use those same skills to write a persuasive essay!
    7. Writing to Persuade - Persuasion means making someone with a different point of view from your own change their mind to your way of thinking.
    8. Writing to Persuade Rubric - Perhaps your students can understand writing to persuade better by seeing this rubric.
19. PIZZAZ !... People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling - Excellent resource for all types of writing. PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages.
20. Power Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin - Help! The power has gone out at HME-TV, and proofreaders are needed to fix TV scripts, memos and other writing at the station. HM has provided a special power screen so your students can help them.
21. Pre-Reading Clock - an activity designed to help establish vocabulary readiness
22. Prewriting
    1. Prewriting - Ideas on prewriting techniques
    2. Prewriting -The Write Site - activities you can use to help plan and organize your writing
    3. Prewriting Process - A summary put together to help educators and students see how the Writing Process fits with various programs they may already be using.
    4. Prewriting Strategies - Prewriting techniques
    5. Prewriting Strategies - from Gallaudet University - way of organizing your thoughts and beginning to put the information you have on paper
    6. Six Prewriting Steps - prepare your ideas for your essay before you begin writing
23. Principles of Composition - The writing process, structural considerations and patterns of composition.
24. Self Evaluation Writing Rubric - Check yourself!
25. Scrambled Stories - students select one of six stories, select from a list of words, and then see the story that they scrambled
    1. Scrambled Stories Teacher's Guide - suggestions on how to use the stories in grades K-6
26. Story Mapping - An interactive online writing guide - Ready-made lessons for this tool
27. TCAP Writing Assessment - The TCAP Writing Assessment is administered to fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade students in Tennessee. This page gives sample writing prompts and a rubric used for scoring.
28. Thinking Things from Snaith Primary - An interactive site with which you can create stories online. Click on the Character and Setting links at the top to write your own stories. Click on the numerous travel links to learn about history.
29. Transition Words:
    1. University Writing Center - Transition words and phrases
    2. Transitions - lists of transition words
    3. Transition Tips - Writing and Studying Skills and Tips
    4. Writing Transition words and phrases - A list of transitions
30. Write About Me - personalized e-book site for K-5 students - click on the orange words (The Enchanted Globe), fill in some information and read a personalize story
31. Writing - many online lessons and activities learning the writing process. Many forms of writing are included on this page, such as expository, narrative, summary and the 6-trait writing style. Lee's Summit School District site.
32. Writing Activities - Many ideas and activities (warning: This is a Tripod site and may be blocked by school filters)
33. Writing a Cinquain
    1. Cinquain from abcTeach
    2. How to Write a Cinquain from CanTeach
    3. Poetry in Forms Series: Cinquain from the Writer's Resource Center
    4. Two Cinquains create Wacky Web Tales on line
    5. Your Town cinquain - create a cinquain on line.
34. WritingFix for Kids... Come and choose a game to play, from their list of games today. If you have some paper near they think you'll write while you are there.
35. Writing Lessons - A collection of writing lessons plans for your students' use to prepare for standardized testing.
36. Writing Paragraphs - Precise instructions with definitions of each part.
37. Writing Prompts
    1. Creative Writing Prompts - Use the creative writing prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination.Over 200!
    2. Imagination Prompt Generator - Click to get a new prompt.
    3. Nursery Rhyme Expansion - Nursery Rhymes can be wonderful springboards for all kinds of Language Arts activities. Here is an activity designed to give middle school students practice with the aspects of purpose, voice, and audience in their writing.
    4. Original WritingFix Prompt Generator - over 400 different prompts Sign up to have 6 Prompts from this page e-mailed to you every Sunday for your writing for the week!
    5. Proverbs: Wisdom Tales Without the Plot - Have students choose a familiar proverb and develop a story that can surround and carry that thought. Multicultural proverbs offer interesting insights into the universality of wisdom.
    6. Workout Room Writing Prompts - Grades 1-8
    7. Writing Prompts - Many ideas to start your students' minds.
    8. Writing Prompts - from Teachers.net
    9. Writing Prompts - Narrative, Persuasive and Expository
    10. Writing Prompts - from Everyday Spelling ; Grades 1-8
    11. Writing Prompts with pictures - Elementary
38. Writing Skills - Alliteration, Personification, Similes, Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole

Creative Writing Lesson Plans

1. Composition Ideas - writing lesson ideas.
2. Delicious Descriptive Adjectives - Your mission for this project is to make different foods sound as delectable and as scrumptious as possible.
3. Lesson Ideas - 7 creative writing lessons that engage the children in writing.
4. Rewriting Fairy Tales - 3rd-5th grade
5. TeachNet Writing Ideas - writing activities for grades 1-8.

Stories for Children

1. Don't see a book you are looking for? Do a search by author, or by title.
2. Aesop's Fables - with morals listed. This site has hundreds of fables and fairy tales, some are available with audio.
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - A twelve-chapter performance in RealAudio by the Wired for Books Players
4. BAB Books On-Line - stories for primary students. No audio
5. Chateau Meddybemps Beantime Stories - (on-line stories where jellybeans ripen under tropical rainbows) some are for preschool and primary, others are for all ages (Check their homepage for other neat things.)
6. Children's Books Online in a variety of languages - posted by artist and designer, Asbjørn Lønvig in Denmark
7. Children's Storybooks Online - You will find illustrated storied for young children and older children.
8. Children Stories - [this link opens in a new window] numerous on-line stories, some from South Africa
9. CYKE - Stories about feelings and emotions - To select a story click on one of the sea creatures that go by. (can be used as a whole class activity)
10. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - read story and hear the narrations.
11. Lesson Plans for Children's Books - alphabetical index from Mr. Donn
12. Lil' Fingers Storybook - over a dozen stories and a coloring activities page (for Pre-K and K)
13. Literature Based Reading Units - twenty second-grade units with worksheets to print
14. Little Animals Activity Center - (4-8 year olds) Audio stories from BBC with interactive participation. This is a British site and the language pronunciation and meanings may seem strange at times.
15. NickJr has stories that are read aloud and animated. A very good site for young children. Click on the stories link to get to the list of stories that are told. Don't forget to click around while the story is being read for cute animation of the characters!
16. Online Children's Stories - There are a lot of stories available on the Internet to read or download. Some of them are from well-known books, others can be found only online.
17. Online Children's Stories to Read - Fables and stories.
18. PBS Stories - may be difficult for young readers
19. Picture Books - stories for younger readers, with colorful pictures - from Internet Public Library
20. Ping Pong Word Learning Program - help your students memorize words easily.
21. Princess Long Long Ago - interactive story adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. Song format
22. Reading Lounge -"Three children's books are animated online, with readings and/or introductions by a variety of players and Spike Lee. Students love to see their favorite Knicks players read aloud to them, and they can also read along with the narrator in the captioned version"
23. Reading Units - lessons to use with over six dozen books, from Afternoon on the Amazon to Woodsong
24. RIF - online read along stories and songs.
25. Short Stories - If picture books are too easy, try these short stories. They are also from Internet Public Library.
26. Short Stories -Simple online stories for your little readers - No audio. Scroll down to the middle of the page for the free stories.
27. Stories to Read online - These are not audio but for reading entertainment.
28. Tales by Beatrix Potter from Kids Corner
    1. Cecily Parsely's Nursery Rhyme
    2. The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
    3. Johnny Town-Mouse
    4. Miss Moppet
    5. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
    6. The Pie and the Patty Pan
    7. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
    8. Timmy Tiptoes
    9. The Tale of Two Bad Mice
29. Sniffy and Fluffy have an Adventure - a frog and a fish take a trip across the pond
30. Stories to Grow By from Whootie Owl - You can search for stories by type, the values taught, or the place of origin. This is a large stockpile of stories and the stories are age ranked.
31. Story Place - The Children's Digital Library - Visit the preschool library and the elementary library.
32. The Sun and the Cold North Wind - interactive story.
33. The Symphony of Friendship - A story about the start of the Japanese custom of playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Christmas. 2nd and 3rd grade and up.
34. Tiger Aki Storybooks - Series of stories about Tiger Aki. Audio provided.
35. Tweenies Story Time - stories read aloud

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