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Literature-Based Creative Writing	Books that Facilitate Writing
TPTE595 Homepage	Background Reading for Creative Writing Course

Journal Writing

Writing Prompts/Journal Topics
This site provides 13 pages of writing prompts and journal topics categorized by: What is . . . , What if . . ., What do you think . . . , What . . . , How . . . , I wish . . . , Describe . . . , When . . . , Which . . . , Who . . . , Where . . . , Why . . . , and Misc.

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
This site encourages the use of journals with curriculum areas (social studies, science, math, etc).

Poetry

Poetry Pals
Kindergarten through twelfth grade students from around the world develop literacy, technology , and communication skills by reading, creating, publishing original poetry on the Internet. A rubric is provided to guide assessment of skills.

Lear, Limericks and Literature
This site provides in-depth information about limericks and the poetry of Edward Lear.

Pumpkin Patch
Pumpkin Patch - collaborative Internet project for lower primary students which showcases their
pumpkin poetry and graphics.

Your Thoughts Are Very Powerful
This site creative thought and the use of imagination in writing. Follow the link for techniques for writing songs and poems. Nice "how to" along with some food for thought.

HAIKU LESSONS FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY:
http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/LP/LS3.html
An outdoor 90 minute lesson on writing haikus.

Writing Through the Curriculum

Message in a Bottle
Social studies application of using maps to give clues. Directions and clues are written and put in a bottle for others to find and try to discover where whoever wrote the note might be located.

Historical Fiction
This site offers suggestions and support for researching times in history and writing historical fiction including the research.

Language Arts Focus

Figurative Language
This site provides definitions and practice for figurative language.

Successful Paragraphs
This site provides a "recipe" for helping students "build" paragraphs. A writing exercise that allows for some direct teaching of writing techniques.

Smoke
Explains how responding to categories of items helps paint a picture of yourself. Nice introductory activity to get to know people.

Submitting Student Writing On-Line

KidNews Magic Writer
This site provides a place to display student writing on-line.

WEB SITES FOR WORD PLAY AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT:

http://www.vocabulary.com/

http://www.syndicate.com/power.html

http://www.mtnds.com/af/ - look up over 61,000 acronyms

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html - Homonym list

http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm - unbelievable site!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html - A word a Day

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/anagrams/ - anagrams

General Writing Resources

Reentering a Childhood Memory
Using childhood memories as prompts for writing.

Conversing with an Object
Students create written conversations using objects.

Class Big Book Ideas
Students will practice their printing and sentence writing skills through writing pages for class big books. Class big books also are a good way to promote cooperation and reading in your classroom.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
Very comprehensive on-line guide for teachers and students.

Class Books patterned after Books
This site provides several suggestions for using children's literature as a stimulus for creating class books.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html
This is one of my most recommended writing sites: Writing-Related Resources. Over 130 handouts to guide different aspects of writing.

It's in the Bag
Students will create a setting for descriptive writing using a collection of objects related to a specific time or place.

http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa020698.htm?rf=dp&COB=home&TMog=52199442114554&Mint=52199442114554
Secondary School Educators: Proofreading Ideas to Make It Easier to Teach and Assess

PIZZAZ!
This site is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only. Included in this great site: poetry, fiction, bag of tricks, publishing opportunities, and other teacher resources.

The On-Line Writer's Club
On-Line Writer's Club - a place to post your original poems and stories.

The Write Life
This site provides opportunities to subscribe to several free email subscriptions to on-line magazines relating to creative writing. Also included on this site are links to many other useful on-line resources, book recommendations that relate to writing and many other useful features.

IT'S IN THE CAN!
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/writcan.html
Create a story center and use these ideas, activities and topics to promote writing in your classes.

FAILURE-PROOF WRITING LESSONS FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED LEARNERS:
http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/4/81.04.11.x.html
This educator looks at why writing might be a problem with disadvantaged students, and then discusses ways to encourage learning and creativity, as well as mastery of the writing process. Assignments and strategies are included.

WORLD WRITERS:
http://wwwbir.bham.wednet.edu/wws/wws.htm
A 5th grade class created these writing pages in order to help other students become better writers.

WRITING ADVENTURES:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/freshenglish/writing.html
Here you will find an extensive series of high school writing lessons divided into three main categories: Composition I, Composition II, and English II. Each contains several lessons and resources, such as writing about plot, 100 journal topics, literary analysis, poetry project, activities for specific novels--much more.

WRITING ASSIGNMENT: WHAT IS YOUR TEN YEAR PLAN?
http://www.ncte.org/teach/Wheeler24764.html
Students write their own ticket to the American dream, as they see it, elaborating on how they will obtain and secure their various ideals and enterprises. Introduced a la Great Gatsby.

ONLINE ENGLISH GRAMMAR:
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar.toc.cfm
With a grammar clinic, practice pages, grammatical description and many resources, both students and teachers can profit from this site.

PARADIGM ONLINE WRITING ASSISTANT:
http://www.powa.org/
The Paradigm page is full of how-to's for just about any writing enterprise, with graphics, writing topics, activities and question and answer. See Informal Essays category for story-writing sub-headings.

EX NIHILO ONLINE WRITING WORKSHOP:
http://www.jps.net/gmreed/writing/mainwrit.htm
A virtual middle school writing classroom is how this site is self-described, from 7th grade teacher Mr. Reed. Well-rounded, with Jumpstart section for ideas, an online sharing and feedback forum, grammar and editing, a gallery of writing, sentence practice, mini-lessons, publishing, vocabulary building and a middle school ezine. Very resourceful and well- organized.

WRITING CURRICULUM: ENTHUSIASM IS ALL WRITE:
http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/4/81.04.04.x.html
From the Yale New Haven Teacher's Institute, this comprehensive writing program looks at barriers to writing, and then proposes a substantial plan for initiating enthusiasm and output. 10 activities, 3 lesson plans and evaluation.

TEACHING POETRY IN NEW FORMATS:
http;//www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/4/81.04.08.x.html
Again from the Teacher's Institute, tried and true methods are explained to motivate students in creative writing. Advice is also offered in setting up an atmosphere conducive to output. With several activities, poetry formats and principles.

http://crayon.net
Have your class create their own online newspaper at this site. Step-by-step instructions make for painless teaching!

POSTCARD EXCHANGE FOR MULTI-LEVEL
3RD & 4TH GRADE CLASSROOM:
Teacher Sue Carter of New Hampshire seeks other third and fourth grade classes to exchange postcards, hopefully from every state. Reach Sue at: slcart@aol.com

3RD GRADERS POSTCARD EXCHANGE:
Melanie Boyd's 3rd grade gifted & talented class is doing a postcard exchange project.
They also would like to receive postcards from each state, and in return would be glad to send one from Texas to your class. Write to Melanie at: wcbmab@aol.com

PARTS OF A SENTENCE:
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/sentence/index.htm
I have heard it said that a writer must first learn all the grammatical rules before breaking them. Well, it works if I say this to my daughter! Here's a starting point for rules: punctuation, nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs.

QUOTABLE HUXLEY QUOTES:
http://www.freespeech.org/james/huxley/Huxleyquotes.htm

GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WRITING:
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
Professor Charles Darling from Capital Community Tech College (CT) has provided an excellent and comprehensive guide to English grammar, sentence construction, spelling and composition. Also find categories for Forms of Communication (e.g. business letter, resumes, research papers); Ask Grammar (If you're puzzled about or stuck on a particular grammar problem, you may submit a question; do check the FAQ file first.) and Online Interactive Quizzes. This site is quite extensive and provides a wonderful resource for teachers, parents and students alike.

STORY FUN!
http://www.mit.edu/storyfun
This site is a madlibs story format. Practice adjectives, nouns, etc., or don't pretend you're learning anything at all and just have fun making the weirdest stories you can possibly think of and see what's returned to you!

A LINK TO WRITING (7-12)
A great site where kids can interact with other kids around the world. Kids can submit articles, fiction and music to be included on the web-site. There is also a serial novel that has a new chapter added each week. Heavy graphics.
http://www.cyberkids.com/

Creative Writing for Kids, an About.com GuideSite™.
Learn to write well and have fun doing it! Get storytelling tips, work on grammar and spelling, and publish stories online. From about.com.
http://kidswriting.about.com/index.htm

Website for writing.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/5949/

Web Sites for Publishing Children's Writing and other Resources

http://members.xoom.com/writutor/
Writutor: Being well-educated means writing well; but learning how to write requires constant practice with feedback. Writutor connects a tutor with your student-writer through the convenience of e-mail. Whether you are home-schooling and haven't the time for step-by-step editing, or have a student in school who needs extra practice, we can help.

http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/Research/NWP/nwp.html
The National Writing Project

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/writers/introduction.html
This is one of my most recommended writing sites: Writing-Related Resources
We've tried to collect a variety of resources (both our own handouts and links to other writing-related sites) to help you meet a variety of writing demands.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
This is the homepage for the site listed above.

http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm
A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association(MLA) Documentation

http://www.writershome.com/
The Writers Home. Interesting site - you might find some good stuff.

http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa011698.htm?rf=dp&COB=home&TMog=52199442114554&Mint=52199442114554
Secondary Education: Writing Across the Curriculum

http://7-12educators.about.com/msub57litsources.htm?rf=dp&COB=home&TMog=52199442114554&Mint=52199442114554
Secondary School Educators: Writing Instruction ResourcesGrammar, Style and Mechanics Essay, Paragraph and Research Paper Instruction Multi-featured Internet Writing Resources

http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa020698.htm?rf=dp&COB=home&TMog=52199442114554&Mint=52199442114554
Secondary School Educators: Proofreading Ideas to Make It Easier to Teach and Assess

http://www.manhattan.edu/services/c_teach/strategy/writetps.html
Writing Tips: Using Writing In The Discipline As A Process Instruction. One of the most significant principles in the successful teaching of writing is that students learn most when they are actively involved in the struggle to write meaningful pieces for real readers.

http://www.erlbaum.com/841.htm
RECONCEIVING WRITING, RETHINKING WRITING INSTRUCTION edited by Joseph Petraglia Georgia Institute of Technology: To a degree unknown in practically any other discipline, the pedagogical space afforded composition is the institutional engine that makes possible all other theoretical and research efforts in the field of rhetoric and writing.

http://www.achievementprep.com/Eng.htm
Achievement Prep English: a solid foundation in the basic skills of English grammar. A comprehensive, interactive program that improves communication, writing, and test scores. Eighteen self-help tutorials for MacIntosh and Windows'95.

http://web.missouri.edu/~c286288/powerpoint/index.htm
Tracking the Changes in Writing Instruction

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/rwash.html
Using WWW for Writing Instruction Tools Currently Used with English 101

http://www.homestead.com/childrenstories/
A LINK TO STORIES (K-6)
Storymaker helps you write stories. Storymaker has part of the story and you fill in the rest.

http://www.underdown.org/
Welcome. I edit children's books. Here you'll find useful articles I've written and selected links to resources for writers, editors, teachers, librarians, parents, and others--children's book people.

http://www.isnn.org
    NEW INTERNET NEWS NETWORK
    Introducing the Internet Student News (Publishing) Network. The theory behind ISNN is a
    transformative pedagogy which allows students to write about real things in the real world for real people. Cummins and Sayers, "Transformative pedagogy uses collaborative critical inquiry to relate curriculum content to students' individual and collective experiences and to analyze broader social issues relevant to their lives."

http://www.write4kids.com/links.html
Whether you're published, a beginner, or just someone who's always dreamt of writing for kids, you've come to the right place. Here you'll find lots of information, exclusive Special Reports, messaging and live chat, the latest children's bestsellers, links to other important sites and much more.

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/5165/
Poetry Pals The K-12 Student Poetry Publishing Project

http://www.kidzpage.com/
KIDZPAGE is an educational site for children and their parents. Our aim is to use the internet to reach young people and their parents throughout the world and share useful educational information and creative endeavors that enrich children's lives. Our website is divided into three sections. The KIDZPAGE LIBRARY provides a source of good books for children chosen by our editors who are academic, university associated professionals. KIDZPAGE AFTER SCHOOL is a directory of summer and after school educational programs. KIDZ WORK PUBLISHING is a place for KIDZ to publish and share their creative literary, graphic art work and school projects on the internet. A new section called SCIENCE NEWS has been added recently to provide interesting and useful science information for family nature and school science projects.

http://imago.com.au/funhouse/
Fun House - read some great books or view the kids' art collection.

http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/~just0020/amy/amy.html
Hello! Welcome to ImagiNATION! In case you're wondering (and we know you are), this page was
designed to spark your creativity. We hope you have fun creating your stories. We are excited to
see ImagiNATION develop with the help of your input and unique ideas.

http://www.angelfire.com/mi/cocoz/index.html
On-Line Writer's Club - a place to post your original poems and stories.

http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/
Pumpkin Patch - collaborative Internet project for lower primary students which showcases their
poetry and graphics.

http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~lambert/yeah2.htm
YEAH - Young Eloquent Authors' Haven - enjoy these stories and poems written by kids.

http://web.missouri.edu/~c286288/powerpoint/index.htm
Tracking the Changes in Writing Instruction

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/rwash.html
Using WWW for Writing Instruction Tools Currently Used with English 101

http://www.homestead.com/childrenstories/
A LINK TO STORIES (K-6)
Storymaker helps you write stories. Storymaker has part of the story and you fill in the rest.

A Word a Day - Site provides vocabulary development sent to your email address.
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/wordlist.html
Click here to subscribe (free): http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html

Wacky World of Words.
http://members.home.net:80/teachwell/

http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/Research/NWP/nwp.html
The National Writing Project

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
This is the homepage for the site listed above.

http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm
A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association(MLA) Documentation

http://www.writershome.com/
The Writers Home. Interesting site - you might find some good stuff.

http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa011698.htm?rf=dp&COB=home&TMog=52199442114554&Mint=52199442114554
Secondary Education: Writing Across the Curriculum

Creative Writing with Comics
This site provides ideas for using comic strips to encourage creative writing.

Strategies for Creative Writing
This site provides steps for relaxation and concentration when attempting to write (poem, song, etc).

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