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Map to writing a compare and contrast essay

With the increasing popularity of e-mail and online instant messaging among today's teens, a recognizable change has occurred in the language that students use in their writing. This lesson explores the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing.

The Letter Generator is an interactive tool that invites students to learn the parts of a business or friendly letter and then compose and print letters.

Series of lessons that help create an online blogging community for students. PLN in a sense. Helps to give students more of an audience.

Language arts teachers of all ages will love the free lesson plans on this website. They are standards based and organized by grade level.

Great tools and lessons for teaching w/comics.

newly relaunched site is collaboration between IRA and NCTE. Contains lesson plans, activities, readings, etc.

Great resources for the web and 21st century literacy!

activities for teens and children explore reading and writing away from school hours

Interactive tools and sites for literacy.

n his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama describes an incident in which he, as a young boy, "came across the picture in Life magazine of the black man who had tried to peel off his skin" (51). Seeing the devastating effect negative messages about being African American had on this man, Obama "began to notice that [Bill] Cosby never got the girl on I Spy, that the black man on Mission Impossible spent all his time underground. [He] noticed that there was nobody like [him] in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog ... and that Santa was a white man" (52).

This is a great resource for creating trading card to print on any subject. Just choose a topic, upload an optional image, fill in the facts, data of questions you what and print the set. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

An interest English resource where users can mix up fairytale stories and add their own text. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

We teachers like to shake things up a bit and how better to begin than by adding a little randomness into your lessons. This is a great site that creates custom cubes which you can use as dice in class. They are easy to create and great for children make for a range of subjects and activities. Give it a roll. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Well structered lesson plan with background and resources!

The students read what is supposed to be typed on each page of the website. A step by step description of the parts of the letter is very nicely organized. It includes the heading, salutation, body, closing, signature and postscript. All are needed to finish the letter. The student can then choose the border and have the option of emailing, printing or saving their letters.

In this online tool, students can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out. Because diamante poems follow a specific format that uses nouns on the first and last lines, adjectives on the second and fourth lines, and gerunds in the third and fifth lines, this tool has numerous word-study applications. The tool provides definitions of the different parts of speech students use in composing the poems, reinforcing the connection between word study and writing. It also includes prompts to write and revise poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process. Students can print their finished diamante poems.