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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.

Writing is very a individual skill that all students need to learn. The problem is, I find many writing programs teach a formula… but is that what's best for creativity?

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.

I shared a couple of sites that anylize a writng piece earlier this year. This seems to be another good one.

Learn all about the Olympic Games with this fun page, written to appeal to children and link to the printable and craft activities already at Activity Village.

They have a nice section with Printable Mangement forms and also will soon be adding an Author's Study section soon.