Erin Bouma's Recommended
The Art of WRITING Sites
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
Handouts for Students and Teachers from Purdue University’s On-line Writing Lab (OWL) 1. General Concerns: Starting; Effective Writing, Revising/editing; Genres of Writing.
2. ESL.
3. Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling.
4. Research & Documenting Sources.
5. Practice Exercises.
Three Sites from “Teaching That Makes Sense” (ttms.org) with clear points for writing:
www.ttms.org/PDFs/1%20Writing%20 Strategy%20Guide%20v001%20(Full).pdf
124-page PDF “Writing Teacher’s Guide” with lots of practical approaches and student handouts.
www.ttms.org/PDFs/04%20Writing%20 Process%20v001%20(Full).pdf
Writing Process Organizer – 35 pages on pre-writing, drafting, sharing, revising, editing, publishing and assessing.
www.ttms.org/PDFs/13%20What%20is% 20Good%20Writing%20v001%20(Full).pdf
“What is Good Writing?” – 40 pages on the mechanics and style of effective writing.
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/writers/home.html
English On-line’s “Writers’ Window” from New Zealand for students 5–18. Includes a Writer’s Workshop, with guides for writing stories, poems, reviews and reports, also samples of student writing and continuous stories you can develop.
Here are a set of Classroom Lesson Plans for a variety of different types of writing:
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=856
Intermediate activity – writing an informational brochure about your town
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=868
“Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms”
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=318
Descriptive Writing and Art. What is a description? When do we describe things? Why do we describe things? What kinds of words might you use to describe a piece of art?
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1086
Elements of Travel Writing, sample for analysis and student practice writing.
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=781
Writing about non-fiction texts using graphic organizers to help comprehension. Students record their thinking and new learning.
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=249
Creating a Classroom Newspaper. Students as reporters and editors study journalistic style.
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=102
Weekend News – Weekly reporting activity on personal stories and checklist assessment
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=902
Draft reflective letter writing to the teacher. Letter conventions and writing mechanics.
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=876
Writing a critical Review. Students’ opinions of films, books, etc. expressed with style and fluency.
www.ilovethatteachingidea.com/ideas/030301_100_words_no_more_no_less.htm
A science fiction story writing assignment limited to “100 words or less”. Intermediate.
www.mrscowan.com/writingstrategies.htm
Teacher’s Guidelines covering Writing Strategies to help get children writing. Writing ideas and prompts, good writing habits and stages of writing.
http://writingfix.com
Site for writers with all kinds of aids: daily prompts, prompts for kids, journaling, lessons using “The 6 Traits of Writing” and more.