Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides 30+ graphic organizers to aid in planning and writing. Students will be able to write informational pieces and literary responses.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Owl Planes Typing
Owl Planes Typing is an educational multi-player racing game that allows students from anywhere in the world to race one another while practicing typing and keyboard skills!
Other
J Learning: Your How to Site for Community Journalism
This website is a tutorial in how to make an on-line community newspaper. Check out the hot topics, more learning, and latest updates sections to get more instruction.
Harold D. Underdown
Getting Started: The Basics of Writing & Illustrating
A fantastic resource for getting started in publishing a children's book. Provides information about writing, sending and submitting your manuscript, choosing an agent, and more.
Harold D. Underdown
The How Do I Get It Published Quiz
A fantastic quiz for answering questions about getting your writing piece published. Pertains specifically to children's literature, but may also be relevant for other types of writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: I've Been Assigned a Paper, Now What?
This tutorial focuses on selecting and narrowing a topic for a literary paper. It offers a flow chart of the writing process and two videos brainstorming topics using a web-style graphic organizer for each of two novels: "To Kill a...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Writers' Notebook
Virtually participate in a workshop of four high school teachers led by a renowned author. There are eight topics including "Hiding and Revealing with Language," "Using Sensory Description," and "Writing a Picture of Me".
Other
Poets & Writers Magazine: Classifieds
Found in these classifieds are numerous calls for manuscripts of various kinds (some of a somewhat controversial nature). Contests are also mentioned.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Guide to Desktop Publishing
This resource provides information about the process of desktop publishing, including the principles of layout and design.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Publishing Your Writing
A basic guide concerning how to go about publishing your writing. Includes information about what it means to be published, publication types, and guidelines for submission. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Strategies for Revising and Editing on Computers
Comprehensive discussion on how to edit material on computers. Explains how to perform functions in 2 general areas: spell check and search & replace. Also explains difference between doing this "on paper" and on computer. W.11-12.6...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Comp: Types of Writing: The Writing Process
This lesson focuses on the writing process including understanding purpose, audience, and tone and the parts of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
Other
Umuc: Secrets of My Research Success
This 35-minute interactive tutorial models the research process via the story of Quentin, a UMUC student. It takes him through the various research process steps: understand how to locate background information on his topic by showing...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Stages of the Writing Process [Pdf]
This is a three-page PDF of the "Stages of the Writing Process" including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. W.11-12.5 Writing Process
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: The Assembly Plant
A book about making things with tools and different materials. Includes audio narration in six additional languages with text in English.
Other
Oslis: Research Process
Excellent site outlining each step for Internet research for grades 6-12. This site focuses on writing a research paper from selecting a topic through to the final paper. Click on Cite My Sources to get the electronic citation machines....
Other
Pic lits.com: Inspired Picture Writing
This innovative resource offers a wide selection of photographs and words to stimulate writing in an interactive format.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: I Learned It Online
Preparing the new generations for college and career readiness absolutely requires us to ensure our children are competent and comfortable in the use of a variety of digital tools. Young scholars will be learning about a topic online and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: And the Author Is...using Digital Tools for Writing
Empower students to recognize that they are thinkers and writers! They will collaborate on a writing piece to brainstorm, organize and publish ideas with a digital tool. This lesson highlights different website creations as examples of...
Other
Story Jumper
Students can create their own storybooks using this website. They can add backgrounds, props, characters, personal photos or artwork, text, and their own voices. Free registration is required in order to save their work. There is a cost...
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina: Tar Heel Reader
Students can create, illustrate, and publish books for beginning readers, which are made available for the public to read. Authors must go through the free registration process in order to create a book.
Curated OER
Neh: Edsit Ement: Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
For this lesson plan, students will consider "Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Writers and Editors
If you want a career as a broadcast journalist, you may want to check out this career info. It covers everything you need to know about writing, editing, and reporting.