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Reflections on and resources for digital writing and digital writing instruction.

Looks like great potential to support tech-supported process writing approaches. Free for teacher and up to 40 students.

Site full of writing ideas for 3rd through 5th graders! This is where I will be posting the lesson plans that I am using with my 5th graders at Guthrie Elementary School.

Creative Writing Prompts collection of writing prompts and story starters for writers. Come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories with the help of these creative writing ideas.

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

Totally cool. Here's some thinking outside the box that will fascinate some teachers and more students.

We'll get to this when we move to digital writing online as a class topic.

Creative way to teach reading and writing especially to the emergent, early/beginning readers. Through reading and writing poetry your children will be able to express their feelings, thoughts and imagination about silly to serious topics. We read and write lots of different poetry in first grade. Here you'll find poems for each month of the year.

Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Classrooms from schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster. They then write a description of the monster and the other group must recreate the drawing using only their description.

This is a quick read offering 10 tips for effective and purposeful writing. Very sensical and adaptable to middle grades.

Probably one of the coolest and easiest story starter sites I have seen for grades k-6!! This is like a slot machine that you see at a casino. It has different sections on the slot machine depending on your grade level. The first slot being the genre, the second slot is a describing word for the subject, the third slot is the subject, and the last slot describes what the subject is doing or does. For example, one that I just got on there was: "Write a postcard from a balding carnival clown who explores a newly discovered planet." From here the kids can change the individual slot if they want to. Once they finish they click next and can pick the type of format (newsletter, letter, postcard, and notebook). Once that is selected they can type their story on the format they selected. If they want to write they can just pick a format and print a blank page. Or, you don't even have to use any format and can do a whole class prompt and they write on paper or just type in a word document. I showed my students the machine today and they were very interested in trying it during their writing station. It is too easy to not try- so I am going to give it a shot next week!! I think it is very creative and can make some very silly stories!

Leanne Gosey, a masters student in reading, reflects on writing instruction, technology integration, and teaching. Thoughtful stuff. Recommended to other students, beginning teachers, and teacher educators.

This site provides young kids with a story starter to begin writing a story. This site is Story Starter jr. and they also have a Story Starter for older kids. Great site to help students who are stuck and can't think of anything to write about.

Write a letter to your future self and read the public (but anonymous) letters from others

Reading, writing and spelling and grammar skills can help you tell a story, share your ideas, write a letter and make sense of instructions. We use them everyday and they help us understand each other.

This is great site, especially boys, who are most interested in graphic novel and comic type reading and writing. Here, kids can write and create their own comic styled writing and illustrations!

This is a cool site. You can make a bookl too! Free account.

BigUniverse.com is an online tool that has both fiction and non fiction texts and picture books for pre-k to 8th grade. Students can also write their own stories and take quizzes on books they have read!

Dana, a master's student in my class, had us create 6-word memoirs with the poetry section of Storybird.com and then import the final product into Padlet.com where they can be shared in a variety of ways.

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

Twitter and writing instruction ideas.

Writer's Workshop consists of a mini-lesson, student writing time, and author's chair share each day in our classroom. Read more about our Writer's Workshop below! Writer's workshop begins with a mini-lesson. Mini-lessons are short 5-15 minute lessons in which the teacher addresses writers' needs.