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This is a link to a blog from a teacher who did a webinar on student book publishing with links to Student Treasures Publishing where you can publish class books for free. Neat idea!

ReadWriteThink has a printing press where students can make a booklet, flyer, brochure, or newspaper. There is a step by step guide to walk the students through with basic editing and graphics- but is great for students trying to learn how to use documents like Microsoft Publisher. My students know how to use Publisher now, but this printing press would have been a great way to teach them how to create some of those documents as a "beginner" type version. Great for younger grades!

ReadWriteThink has a printing press where students can make a booklet, flyer, brochure, or newspaper. There is a step by step guide to walk the students through with basic editing and graphics- but is great for students trying to learn how to use documents like Microsoft Publisher. My students know how to use Publisher now, but this printing press would have been a great way to teach them how to create some of those documents as a "beginner" type version. Great for younger grades!

One of the easier free writing/publishing websites I've found.

Canvastic is a site where students can publish their work. It is a graphics and text publishing site. It can be used for Kindergarten through 8th grade.

Tikatok is where you can transform imagination into stories and publish those stories into books to share with family and friends. You could have a classroom book published.

StoryJumper: publish your own children's book.Storyjumper allows you to create online books using a variety of characters, scenes, and props. Teachers can create student accounts for them to have as like a file to store their stories. I thought this would be a neat way to provide online writing to support different reading elemnts (setting, characters, etc).

Closing the middle school vocabulary gap with students performing below grade level takes just 15 minutes a day.With Vocabulary for Success students master the basic, academic and content area word lists that lead to high achievement. Learn More North Carolina preschoolers soon to be investigators!

Another interesting article on ways writers are exploring Twitter as an authoring medium.

Twitter and writing instruction ideas.

The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.

Storynory has published a free audio story every week since November 2005. The stories are delightfully read by professional actors. There are many different types of stories on this site.