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Picture books that can be used at various levels to discuss the writing process

I've been on Richie's email list for years (and I've even met him), but never thought to look for a single  place that holds all of his reviews.  He writes some of the most complete reviews I know of, always connecting the books to other events, songs, or materials. I'm often jealous when he writes reviews for great books months before they are released.

This blog post discusses Paper Rater. The free tool requires no registration and offers real-time, 24/7 analysis and detailed statistics about your work's originality, your word choice, grammar, spelling,style, word choice, readability. It suggests an overall grade, as well as opportunities for improving your writing.

Site where students can choose a photo and drag and drop words to create poems or other writing.

Love the idea of having students write fake news.

includes links to several other articles written by other librarians

Integrates with google drive. Can create reports, newspapers, magazines, recipe books, or other formats.

This was suggested as a source for read aloud and collaboration with classroom teachers for writing.

Talks about importance of reading and writing, including with the family, during the summer

More for public libraries, but might be of interest to school libraries. This author combined the information from several sources to write this detailed plan.

Could be used in Hour of Code or as a Breakout Clue

This includes a link to available books that is updated constantly. John Norton receives the books from publishers and authors. It is mailed to you for free, with expectation that you will write a review for publication within a reasonable amount of time.

Great list of activities and resources for student projects with chromebooks. From Naomi Harm and a SimpleK12 webinar

Livebinder with many Grant tips

Huge repository of videos and ideas for use in primary classrooms.  From the UK.  Here's the description: "The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources that I have collected over my 10 year career as a primary school teacher.   I trawl youtube, vimeo and other sites looking for suitable resources to use in the sheds. The sheds are broadly thematic but sometimes a resource could go in 2 or more sheds, I slot it in where I think it works best. Most of the resources can be used in KS1 and KS2 but some do lend themselves to the upper age group and above. The aim is to provide high quality resources that can be used in stand alone literacy lessons, can form the basis for a whole literacy unit or can support literacy units that you already have in place.   With the many book based activities I would advocate using the book alongside the digital resource.  "

Create digital books on this site; easy for students to do