Reading Resources: Writing

Use the numerous resources on the Internet to give your students additional avenues for authentic writing. There are tools designed to help students in the writing process as well as many safe sites on the Internet to publish student writing.

Prewriting

Writing with Writers

This is an online writer's workshop by Scholastic. Students work through the steps of the writing process with a children's author. Workshops are organized by author or genre. Students can submit their writing to be published online.

RubiStar

Make sure students have the scoring rubric in hand before they begin their project. RubiStar is a terrific tool to easily create rubrics for a wide variety of student products.

SCORE Graphic Organizers

A collection of graphic organizers to print out and use in planning writing.

Graphic Organizers

A collection of graphic organizers in .pdf format to print out and use in the classroom.

Revising

Visual Thesaurus

From the home page, enter a word and click on "Look It Up." This is a thesaurus like you've never seen before!

Writing Den

Writers can explore a variety of topics to see how key words are used in sentences and then how sentences are changed into paragraphs.

Editing

Merriam-Webster Word Central

One benefit of using this online dictionary is that the computer will help you figure out the correct spelling of your misspelled word.

Publishing

Instant Poetry Forms

A fantastic site for budding poets! Numerous templates give kids guidance for composing their poems. Browse through poem templates from "All About Me" to "Yes That's Me" or use the Interactive Poetry Finder to search for poem templates by type.

How to Make a Pop-up Book

Illustrated instructions on how to make a simple pop-up book.

The Biography Maker

Step-by-step instructions on how to use electronic resources to write a biography.

Crystal Ball

Students can read about real predications about the future and then either publish online or print out their own predictions to share with others.