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If I Were a Carpenter: The Tools of the Writer
Twenty tips for writers, slanted toward fiction, from the director of the National Writers' Workshop. Tips are divided into four areas: sentences and paragraphs, language, effects, and structure.
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Arles Office of Tourism
More than 5,000 pictures, maps, tourist information (lodgings, restaurants, real estate, shopping, description of the Crau and of the Alpilles regions surrounding Arles) and daily life (public forum, festivals, creative writing...
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Kalliope Poetics: Online Poetry Workshop
This site tells what a limerick is and, gives a few instructions on how to write one. It also includes info on the traditions of the limerick.
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Wes Tech Vision: Handhelds in the Classroom
If you want information about using handheld computers in the classroom this site is very helpful. Downloadable handouts from a presentation, slides, videos and research can be accessed from this site.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: Skates 280
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on an experience at a skating party. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: The Watch Glass
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's poem comparing school to a watch glass. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
Scholastic
Scholastic: National Poetry Month
A bunch of great poetry resources and lessons! Each lesson lists grade appropriateness. Although this site was created with national poetry month in mind, most of the lessons can be used any time of year.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Reasons for the Seasons
A well-designed science investigation that has students examine and graph seasonal temperature data from cities at different latitudes. They describe trends they see, and explain what they think causes these trends. They then identify...
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.
Curated OER
Writing Fix: Beginning a Kindergarten Writers Workshop: Drawing a Picture
Color photograph of a child sitting on the floor drawing a picture.
University of Pennsylvania
Ritual, Tradition and Reconstruction in Modern Nigeria
An article about Osofisan which gives biographical information as well as explores the influences in his writing.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: The Grammar Handbook: Interjections
A resourceful and professional look at interjections. Provides definitions, examples, and additional information. A great site from the Writing Center at the University of Illinois.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: The Grammar Handbook: Adverbs
A resourceful and professional look at adverbs. Provides definitions, examples, and additional information concerning the three classes of adverbs: simple, interrogative, and conjunctive. A great resource from the Writing Center at the...
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Story Arts Online: Storytelling Lesson Plans & Activities
"This collection of story-related activities, projects and games-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with learners, teachers, and librarians-can be used by educators in a school setting to...
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Story Arts: Storytelling Activities & Plot Structure Scenarios
This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with young scholars, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to...