Peter Smagorinsky hosts this web site and populates it with links to exceptional, full texts, useful to teachers of writing. Here you'll find George Hillocks' "Observing and Writing," Johannessen, Kahn, & Walter's "Designing and Sequencing Prewriting Activities," and many other works. It's a gold mine.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark Twain 'Very' is the most useless word in the English...
Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries, consuming and producing words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking were sufficient. But because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, and widely available new tools, literacy now requires being conversant with new forms of media as well as text, including sound, graphics, and moving images.
there's something about the nature of the Internet, and how it functions, that helps to flesh out a vital component of the writing process that was never quite visible before.