Writing Fun explains the types of text commonly written in schools with printable organizers and examples showing text structures, grammatical features and publishing ideas.

This Jing screencast was done by @KarenJan on using the website Wrting Fun by Jenny Eather

A great collection of links from JC School

A PDF handout on the writing process by Susan C. Anthony

We have come to believe in the importance of incorporating a great mentor text into a writing. A mentor text is a published piece of writing whose idea, whose structure, or whose written craft can be analyzed andd discussed as a means of inspiring their own writing.

The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers.

This is a blog where the writer shows how to use the book she reviews as a mentor text. As her says, "After writing my thoughts about the book, I will have around five bullets at the end for ways to use the text in writing or reading. You can always find several ways to use the text; I'm just choosing the top ways I think the book could be used."

Everything educators, students, and parents need to make the writing process work in the classroom and at home

A collections of links to help you with writing in 4th grade

Great of benchmark papers on each type of writing genre

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

Poetry Writing with U.S. Children's Poet Laureate Poetry's cool - and a lot of fun! In this workshop, I will help you turn your words and ideas into descriptive and powerful poems. As you explore the world of poetry writing, I'll share with you writing tips that I use when I write my poems, as well as ideas for revising your work. When you complete the workshop, you can create a special edition of your poem - published online! I won't be commenting on your poems, but I'll enjoy reading them after you've posted them online.

Check out this site for some global projects.

Jerry has a "page for that". Here he lists the #chats that take place on Twitter on Mondays.

This post by Doug Pete explains a new service called Amplify which allows you to add more discussion to a reTweet.

Our students should have a kinesthetic brain break every 25-30 minutes. Brain breaks are refreshing to students and teachers alike. They do take some time out of class, but the efficiency of our students goes up when we incorporate them. Please comment if you have variations on a particular brain break.

A YouTube video that shows how to do a brain break called "Waiter" in your classroom

Brain breaks listed by subject, links to PDF's