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This website gives all kinds of writing prompt ideas for kids starting in elementary school and going through middle school. The only way kids are going to enjoy writing is if the teacher makes it fun for them. This website has prompts for narrative, persuasive, expository, essay, and journal writings.

"What's the toughest part of your work as an educator? You are used to teaching lessons…you already have the knowledge, so it's not that difficult to express it. However, the task of motivating your students to write falls in another category. It's hard for you to take control over the process and explain how they should infuse their creativity into the rigid form of academic writing. The following 7 online resources will help you teach essay writing in a more inspiring way."

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"Among the responsibilities that today's educators have, teaching essay writing is the most challenging one. Some teachers leave essay writing to natural talent; explain the process in simple steps, assign the topics, and give a deadline."

"n its beginnings, the prospects of educational technology were associated to the goal of making math easier. If you thought it would be impossible to improve a student's literacy and writing skills with the help of an app, you're in for a surprise. Essay writing is a huge trend in the world of educational technology."

"Most Israeli students are overwhelmed by essay assignments. In order to craft a successful project, one has to conduct a thorough research through reliable academic sources. Then, he needs to write a paper with unique ideas supported by facts. The biggest factor that undermines students' success in academic writing is time. When they have to deal with multiple projects and exams, they can hardly complete every paper their professors demand."

Miguel Guhlin has provide this great insight to resources assisting in digitizing writing. This was created as a reflection upon his experience in the Abydos program. Much of it goes along with Six Traits of Writing.

The KU Writing Center offers writing consulting, classroom workshops, and extensive Web resources for all writers at the University of Kansas and beyond.

Travel journal of school's toy mascot. Incorporates teacher and student writing and journaling. Maintained by Joan Schlegelmilch.

Flat Stanley collaborative writing project but on a blog.

Tips on evaluating short writing

Pre-Grade Your Paper: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More "PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing. PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today."

A blog about a teacher's experience with using Diigo and other web tools to facilitate student's research writing.

a free resource that teachers can use in their classrooms or that individuals can use as inspiration for writing

This website serves as a reference tool with writing.  

K-2 Writing interactives from the Utah Education Network.

Story Starters - daily writing activities.

"Hundreds of creative combinations that take the writer's block out of creative writing. Set young writers loose with prompts that focus on character (who the story is about), plot (what happens in the story), and setting (where or when the story happens)." You can also pick the story format (notebook, letter, newspaper or postcard).

Selected stories from the never-ending, worldwide 1001 Flat World Tales wiki writing workshop.

Lesson plans for teaching writing