Education.com
Education.com: W.3.3 Worksheets: Write Narratives to Develop Real or Imagined
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.2d: Provide a Concluding Statement or Section
Links to 8 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2d: Provide a concluding statement or section.
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.6 Worksheets: Use Technology to Produce and Publish Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 7 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.6: With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.4: Produce Writing Appropriate to Task and Purpose
Links to 99 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.4: Produce Clear Writing to Task, Purpose, Audience
Links to 89 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.4: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Writing
A collection of videos, articles for parents and for teachers, teaching strategies, webcasts for teachers, and research briefs on helping children develop their writing skills.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Writing
The BBC offers quick (bitesize) activities, revision options, and quizzes on a variety of writing skills, covering writing arguments, writing factual documents, and writing stories.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Expository Writing: What Kind of Friend
This is an expository writing activity using the Makes Sense Writing Strategies.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Unlocking the Author in You
This lesson is designed to help students develop a love for writing. Students use the attached presentation to guide them in the writing process. They will navigate a variety of websites to help them learn about writing.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Writing Letters
The students will learn how to form a proper letter. They will be able to remove key ideas/details from a text and apply it to their writing. They will also be able to incorporate transition and descriptive words into their writing.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Looking at Writing
An interactive tool to help teachers and parents learn more about writing. Here, writing samples from real kids provide examples and next-step guidance for students from pre-K to third grade.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writer's Notebook: A Pentalogue: 5 Personal Beliefs
This lesson has students create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality writing. A revised...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Worshop: People to Write About
In this mini-workshop, students are provided step-by-step instructions for writing about important people in their lives that they have not yet written about. Click the instructions button when you are ready to begin.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Hamburger Paragraph Template for Students [Pdf]
This is a PDF hambuger template (graphic organizer) to help students organize and write stronger paragraphs.
abcteach
Abcteach: Student Writing Checklist
Excellent printable writing checklist that helps students proofread their pieces and pay attention to elements of strong writing.
Other
Rubric: Six Trait Assessment for Beginning Writers
Teachers will find this rubric useful in the classroom as a means of assessing student writing skills. It has a printer friendly version.
Other
Young Author's Workshop: Writing/drafting
Once you have an idea for your story, is there anywhere you can go online for writing advice? Definitely--the links on this page take you to writing tips, examples of good writing, places to sharpen your writing skills, and places to...
TES Global
Blendspace: The Writing Process: Pre Writing
A six-part learning module with images, videos, and web links to teach different pre-writing strategies.
TES Global
Blendspace: Traits of Writing
A six-part learning module with links to videos, images, and a rubric about the six traits of writing: ideas, voice, organization, word choice, fluency, and conventions.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Writing Process: Drafting
An eight-part learning module with websites, videos, and texts about the drafting phase of the writing process.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write simple, non-chronological reports from known information (e.g., from own experience or from existing text), using notes made to organize and present ideas. Students will learn to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Showing Feelings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart shows how writers express feelings. Instead of telling the reader, they show the reader through descriptive writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing With Pizazz
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps the students with the first step in the Six Traits Writing Process-- gathering ideas. Students are encouraged to analyze writing samples and brainstorm possible personal writing...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Book Important
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students through the writing process utilizing a framework for finding out the important things. It teaches them a structure for organizing their writing as well.