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Resources
Writing Ideas from the Minnesota Best Practice
in Writing Network (2002)
Writing
Ideas from Best Practice in Writing Network 2002
Action Research, Writing Lessons, & Creative Writing from the Minnesota
Writing Project
mwp.cla.umn.edu/anthology/index.html
Barry Lane's Website
www.discoverwriting.com
Barry's
Lesson Plan Archive. Each set of lesson plans includes ideas for K-2, 3-8,
& 9-12.
Jim
Burke's Website
www.englishcompanion.com
Designed as a webtext to expand on
Burke's book The English Teacher's Companion. Continually updated with
new sites and information.
Web
English Teacher
http://WebEnglishTeacher.com
Links to sites about writing, literature, speech,
grammar, and many other general English/Language Arts topics
Theory into
Practice
tip.psychology.org
This website is inctended to make learning and instructional
theory more accessible to educators
Paradigm
Online Writing Assistant
www.powa.org
Gloria's
Web Site
www3.sk.sympatico.ca/fiss/default.htm
Well-developed introduction to writing process including a helpful page
of revision and conferencing ideas. Award-winning Canadian site.
Organizing
Writing conclusions leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html
Writing body paragraphs angelfire.com/ks/teachme/paragraphguide.html
Writing paragraphs and topic sentences
www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/paragraphs.html
Good site for independent,
individualized mini-lessons and skill work:
www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html
Interactive quiz-and-explanation
site particularly for middle schoolers (limited topics) -- sense of humor
Grammar Bytes - www.chompchomp.com
Evaluation
Chicago Public Schools
http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/ideas_and_rubrics.html
Very comprehensive site -- from philosophy to explanations for constructing
rubrics to examples
6 Trait Evaluation
www.nwrel.org/assessment/
The original and definitive 6 Traits site. From the 6+1
Traits menu, check out Link to Instruction
and Writing Assessment
Searchable
database of lesson plans supporting insturction in the 6 Traits
www.nwrel.org/assessment/lessonplans.asp
Examples of satiric voice
www.theonion.com
Rubric
generators:
http://landmark-project.com/classweb/rubrics
How to make a pop-up book
www.makersgallery.com/joanirvine/howto.html
www.hickman.k12.ca.us/cyberwriter/writing.html
ReadWriteThink - sponsored by MarcoPolo, NCTE, and IRA
www.readwritethink.org
Journal
topics
100 ideas www.angelfire.com/ok/freshenglish/journaltopics.html
194 ideas www.angelfire.com/ok/freshenglish/morejournaltopics.html
Harry Potter
Literary Fair
www.gretchenle.com/harrypotter/harrypotter.html
www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil
Activity
Formats
The divisions between the different types of activities blur in the same way
that definitions of writing genres blur. But purposes of the different types
of activities differ in degrees of sophistication and student interaction.
Tutorial
for creating your own webquests
TeacherWeb.com/AK/Appleton/WebQuest/
www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/webquestshowcase.shtml
Examples of webquest lessons
Research
Papers
Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's
Guide
/www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html
Places to go for help with student plagiarism, how to identify it, what to do
when it happens, how to prevent it.
15 poetry writing activities:
www.poetryexpress.org
Mystery
Writing
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002344/index.html
Thinkquest that gives students tips and starters for writing mysteries.
www.educationindex.com/lifestage.html
extensive resources index. Unfortunately, it's organized alphabetically by site
title. But it's lots of fun to browse!
www.ncte.org
Extensive resources. Sign up for a listserve.
http://mwp.cla.umn.edu
Minnesota Writing Project website
http://writingproject.org/
National
Writing Project website
www.middleweb.com/index1.html
Lots of information and resources of particular interest to middle school teachers