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Professional K-12 Resources for teaching writing--Prompts, lessons and resources for teachers. 6+ one writing traits and ideas for using mentor texts is addressed. Classroom Connections: * Use list of mentor texts as examples to model different writing traits * Use various writing prompts to help students get started with writing * Use "Across the Curriculum" to teach and encourage writing in all content areas

k-12-Professional Virtual tours of reading and writing workshops---14 videos of all components of reading/writing workshops Classroom Connections: * Use videos to see how to set up your classroom for reading writing workshops * Use videos to see how to conduct a reading and writing workshop, as well as conferences and sharing * Use blog to communicate with other educators to learn more about managing a reading/writing workshop

Grades 3-6 An interactive website that offers students story starters to help develop ideas for writing pieces. This site can be used by students that struggle to come up with arting prompts an ideas for writing pieces. Teachers can give these to students for free writes.

Teacher Resource- K-12 Ideas for hands on games, activities, lessons to reinforce all math concepts/skills. Includes ideas for math portfolios and writing in math (constructed response questions). Classroom Connections: * Use activities to introduce/reinforce/practice math concepts taught. * Use to differentiate instruction- reaching all types of learners * Use writing activities to practice writing skills in math

Grades 3-8- students and teachers Interactive resources for teaching and applying writing research skills. Classroom Connections: *Teachers- Use "Getting Started" prompts to interactively teach each step of the writing process as it relates to research *Students- use the "Getting Started" prompts to independently work on a research project * Teachers- Use research mini lesson to instruct how to find resources

Grades 2-5 The Screen Actors Guild Foundation reads stories aloud to children. The site offers writing activities to go along with the stories. This site can be used as a center to help students that have difficulty with fluency.

Professional- K-12 Teacher resource for writing objectives for lessons. Includes an interactive Blooms Taxonomy table for reference. Classroom Connections: Teachers- use this resource for examples of tasks/activities to use in classroom to meet various objectives according to Blooms Taxonomy

HTV magazine is a great resource for students interested in possibly pursuing the video production field. HTV Magazine is made up of 20 junior and senior students that are selected by broadcast advisers each year. These students write the articles as well as create the videos that make up the HTV website.

This is a web-based thesaurus that provides a physical representation of synonym and antonyms.

This works really well in an ELA class for choosing character traits or crafting a writing piece. There is a limit to how many times it can be accessed without a subscription, but it's workable. You simple go back a page and start again. What I like best about this site is that the site will provide you with relatable words to what you're looking for and they don't have to be exact matches. By illustrating them at a distance, it is communicated that this is the nature of the connection. 4-12

3-12 A virtual sticky note wall for teachers and students. Teachers can post updates for a class or just allow students to use it for collaboration. Cons: must monitor student activity.

3-12 Teachers and students can collarborate over a public live document. You can invite others to be apart of this experience and its all FREE, no limits. Cons: No limits, must monitor students.

Create comics online.

4-12 This site is for students to create original works or would also be great for creating fan-fiction writing pieces. Students have the benefit of choosing their own layout and have many characters and props to choose from. The one con to this site is a biggee. The work cannot be saved, so students must print as they move along. After speaking with the creator, I have learned that he hopes to correct his-realizing how difficult this makes things. Another con (or more of a precaution). In internet explorer and Google Chrome, you are only able to print what is visible in the window. For this reason, it is essential that the strip be minimized to fit in the screen.

Grades 3-12 Tutorial on doing research, Finding appropriate print resources, taking notes etc. Includes printable form for evaluating print resources. **note--tutorial does not allow teacher to pause for explanations or questions :( Classroom Connections: * show tutorial- explaining what students should look for when choosing print resources for doing research * Whole group practice- interactively fill out an evaluation form on a book reviewed as a whole class * Independent practice- have students fill out an evaluation form on a book they chose for research project