TweenTribune is a daily news site for kids, tweens and teens. The site publishes news stories that are relevant and interesting to young people.The stories are selected by professional journalists working closely with teens, tweens and teachers, and students can post comments. The site also allows teachers to set up/manage classes and assign quizzes on news articles. It is a great site to motivate informational reading and writing.
Take a moment to think about how you learned to write. What steps did you go through? What was your process? Most of us learned the same core set of skills on paper: organize, draft, edit, revise, turn in. Our teachers then marked up what we had handwritten or typed, and returned our writing.