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Brittany Chen

Teachers Use Photo Prompts to Spark Writing - 0 views

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    The National Writing Project investigates more innovative ways to instill creativity in students' writing, one of which is detailed here in this article. A combination of art, writing and tactile sensory is used as students are encouraged to "write what they see."
Stephanie Larson

Creative writing prompts - 0 views

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    I think this is a good website that teachers and students to choose different topics to journal. I think students should write everyday, and with the variety of topics, students can avoid writer's block.
Chelsea Hale

Creative Writing Prompts - 0 views

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    This website offers engaging prompts for creative writing assignments. It includes different audiences and styles of writing.
Jeremie Smith

826 National - 1 views

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    826 National is a network of nine nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. The organization was founded by the American writer, Dave Eggars.
Jason Peterson

Nanowrimo - 0 views

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    If you are a creative writer and haven't heard of nanowrimo, you need to check it out. It is a website that spurs writers on, through word goals and inspirational e-mails, to write a novel in a month. It could also be useful if you teach a creative writing class in the future. Effective writing teachers are writers.
Michelle Marchese

Two Writing Teachers - 1 views

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    A blog that informs how to teach kids to write while erasing all the structure that we are used to
Alexandra Waldie

Creative Writing Prompts - 0 views

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    Once in the schools, many English teachers will have to teach other related subjects such a speech and creative writing. This site offers a lot of great prompts to get students to start thinking.
Evan Munch

Turnaround School - 0 views

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    Link to the video we watched in Willis' class that shows the vast improvements one school has made by incorporating writing into every class period (even P.E.).
Jeremie Smith

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz - 2 views

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    This is proof that high quality prose and poetry can pop up in the most unlikely places. Thousands of people have used Amazon's page selling a peculiar product to demonstrate their writing skills. The web allows for interesting forms of Internet graffiti.
Beatriz Larios

Short story - 0 views

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    Stephen King gives advice on writing stories, and he talks about the process of writing
Elizabeth Porter

World of Warcraft as a Teaching Tool | LiveScience - 1 views

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    This article describes the use one teacher made of World of Warcraft as an outside the classroom teaching tool for reading and writing.
Kim Summers

Resources for Teachers - 0 views

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    This is an excellent resource page that teachers can use to get links to information about literature, grammar, poetry, tests, standardized tests, writing, reading, and this is just the beginning.
Kim Summers

Painting With Words - 1 views

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    This is a great lesson plan that teaches what poetry is and exposes students to different types of poetry. Students will write their own poetry and create a poetry anthology.
Mary O'Brien

Ms. Hogue's Online English Resources - 0 views

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    This blog offers a variety of insights from the point of view of a current educator. I found her writing style to be entertaining yet at the same time intensely thought provoking. Her site also provides links to educational resources!
Stephanie Larson

ReadWriteThink.org - 1 views

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    This is a website that offers resources, lesson plans, and ideas for teaching reading and writing up to a middle school classroom. This is important in teaching the basics of these skills
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    This website will particularly be beneficial to my own lesson plan creation and professional development. The website offers a multitude of activities and strategies for teachers to use. In addition, it offers online professional growth training.
Evan Munch

Tips for grant writing - 0 views

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    One of the questions/ problems with using technology in the classroom is the cost burden, and a way to obtain the necessary funding is through grants. This was a cool link that offers helpful advice for grant-writing.
Brittany Chen

Writing Problems in A Second Language: The Lowdown http://www.brighthub.com/education... - 1 views

This site features insightful articles on how to teach English as a second language, particular in elements of basic writing (vocabulary, grammar, syntax). I found these articles to be very precise...

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Chelsea Hale

Writing Contest/Student Publishing - 0 views

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    This website allows students to enter poetry and essay contests. Teachers can use this to motivate students and find a purpose for writing.
Brad Baum

Web English Teacher - 0 views

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    This site contains a lot of information on just about every aspect of teaching English. All of the various areas broken down, with lesson plan, project and unit ideas on poetry, literature, writing, reading, vocab, grammar, esl, etc.
Amanda Damlos

High School Ace - 1 views

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    This site has ideas for practicing and resources to aide in vocabulary words, grammar, writing, research, free online books, public libraries, literature guides, and poetry.
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