Alabama Learning Exchange
Men and Women of Space Exploration
Fourth graders research famous astronauts. For this space science instructional activity, 4th graders list famous astronauts and use reference materials and the Internet to write a report on them.
Curated OER
Ag In The Outfield
Young scholars explore baseball. This is a cross-curricular plan that includes math, history, and agriculture. Pupils use their five senses to observe the materials a baseball is made from and identify the agricultural products used. In...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Fix Homepage
Have you ever needed someone to help you out with your writing? This site offers help to students and teachers. The lessons and resources are organized based on the 6 Writing Traits model. An especially interesting feature of the site is...
Other
Stone Soup: How to Submit Creative Writing and Art to Stone Soup
This resource accepts contributions from younger children, up through age 13. This page explains the process to follow when submitting contributions. Also at this site students will find a link to a sample issue.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Persuasive Writing
This site has a great unit that leads students all the way through the writing process while composing a persuasive paper. Includes a teacher guide, mini-lessons, assessment rubric, and worksheets to help out at each step of the way.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Research Paper
A site for both students and teachers to explore the writing of a research paper. Find teacher resources, student interactive mini-lessons, and a review of types of research resources.
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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: The Writing Teacher's Strategy Guide [Pdf]
This comprehensive writing guide teaches writing strategies that can be used in any subject area and with any grade level. Each of the eleven chapters discusses and demonstrates a different element of good writing. Many also provide...
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
Typing Club: Learn Touch Typing
Use this free, online typing program to improve typing speed and fluency. Does not require an account. A school portal is available for teachers to customize lesson plans.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Cup Stack Keyboarding
Play this cup stacking game and practice your keyboarding and typing skills.
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".
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.
Other
Storyboard That
Create your own storyboard with this interactive tool. The storyboard framework is a graphic organizer that helps structure students work into a linear and concise story. Although it feels easy at first, breaking down ones thoughts into...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Memoir
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
Other
Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Keyboarding Skills
In this activity, students take a typing test to see how fast they can type. Includes videos of typing contests and links to keyboarding resources.
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.
NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Writing and Publishing Children's Books! [Pdf]
Instructions on how to create and publish a children's book in the classroom or as a community literacy endeavour are provided. The NWT Literacy Council offers bursaries for these projects. It tells of a Grade 3 professionally published...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Personification [Pdf]
A graphhic organizer to help students brainstorm ideas for personification. A blank copy as well as a completed example are provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Write About Something Real at School
In this Writers Workshop lesson, students look around themselves and think about their daily lives at school to find relevant writing topics.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Writing to Learn [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use Writing to Learn as a formative assessment tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, measure progress, and find research to support writing to learn. A list of Writing to Learn activities is...
Other
Appalachian State Univ.: Journal Reprint: Internet and Blog Publishing [Pdf]
Information, ideas, and examples of how technology can be used in a Social Studies classroom. Although designed for a fourth-grade classroom, many ideas in this article are applicable and adaptable for various grade levels and other...
Other
Tagxedo
Tagxedo is a tool for making word clouds for visual displays and graphic use. Students insert a piece of text and the words are laid out to form a shape. A Tagxedo can also be created by pulling text in from a website, Twitter handle,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Collaborative Creative Writing
Students collaborate to create a story together at the same time using Google shared document.