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The Write Source website has writing topics by grade level (K-12) and provides student models with comments by grade level. It helps students create multimedia reports. The materials are created by teachers and writers. It provides information on MLA and APA style, a blog, and a list of publishers for student writing. The site has two very useful student resources: guidelines for how to evaluate interent resources and Research Links: Homework Help and Search Engines. The Write Source could be used by teachers and students.

KidPub has stories, poems, creative writing, videos, and reviews by kids and teens. It has links to Twitter, writing contests, message boards, and events. The site exclusively publishes (for a yearly fee) books and ebooks by kids and teens (who get royalties) as well as professionally edit and format, create cover art with input from the author, and help publicize and sell the books. The site offers a Publishing Guide. KidPub is a good resource to explore the publishing process and show students published works by other kids their age.

Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus that shows connections between words.Students can use it for writing and teachers can use it for lessons (e.g., 6+1 Write Traits Word Choice). This tool explores vocabulary, creates a visual word map,creates and shares word lists,has audio pronunciation, shows relationships between words, and uses visual symbols and allows the manipulation of words.It also provides spelling help, finds synonyms and antonyms, identifies parts of speech, and can analyze vocabulary from any text into lists of useful words and their context. Features include 5 languages, a spelling bee, an online magazine and tech support. The Educators link provides resources, activities, lesson ideas, and professional development.

A writing generator for grades K-6, this resource is very teacher- and student-friendly. An animated guide on the home page for teachers was very simple to understand.

Scholastic Story Starters help students generate ideas, allow creativity, identify story elements, accommodate writing levels and allow students to illustrate their work. It can be used for whole class instruction and individual writing projects.

The Literature Network features access to books, short stories, and poems, an author search, a quote search, quizzes, and a literary periods timeline. Users can also search by literary period or literature history. It has literature forums for reading, book & author discussions, writing, and teaching. Older students could locate resources for projects. Teachers could use the literary periods timeline visual for instruction.

ReadWriteThink features K-12 classroom resources, professional development, and parent resources. There are lesson plans aligned with NCTE and IRA standards and student interactives.

Visual learning strategies such as graphic organizers, concept mapping, mind mapping, diagrams, outlines and more are being used in classrooms. These strategies help students or all ages better manage learning objectives and achieve academic success. As students are required to evaluate and interpret information from a variety of sources, incorporate new knowledge with what they already have learned, and improve writing skills and think critically, visual learning tools help students meet those demands. Together with the brain's capacity for images, visual learning strategies help students better understand and retain information. This Website offers a variety of resources for better understanding the use of visual learning methodologies and tools to incorporate into your classroom.

This site combines the old fashioned practice of writing names on the chalkboard as a form of disciplinary tracking with modern technology. Positive reinforcement is even easier to monitor and post. Internal record-keeping within the software is a snap!

This app for iphone or ipad is an idea board that provides students with a new way to collect, organize, and share your ideas. The "cork" in corkulous is reminiscent of old cork boards and one would organize with notes, pictures, messages and lists. Corkulous is the digital version of this! Students could us this app to organize ideas, write step-by-step plans for a project, grab images to save and create a reminder list of things to do. I also think it could be used as a quick, one-shot way to assess student knowledge on a particular topic, much like a powerpoint, but less involved and quicker.

A site offering educator approved videos in the subject areas of language arts, math, writing, fine arts, science, social studies, and languages. Videos are divided by age level and could be used in the classroom as an introduction to a topic, a review of information or to present a topic in an alternate form.