ABCs of the Writing Process

This site shows the five basic steps in the writing process: prewriting, writing, revising, editing, and publishing.

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess

Authentic Assessment Toolbox

This extensive site was developed by Jonathan Mueller. The site provides materials on how to use authentic tasks and/or assessments in the classroom.

http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbook/howdoyoudoit.htm

Brief Guide to Business Writing

This online text developed by the University of Iowa provides easy to read and understand information on commonly used and accepted guidelines for business writing.

http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/faculty/kbrown/writing.html

Common Errors in English

This site provides information on hundreds of common errors found in writing, as well as focusing on the misuse of words.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

EdHelper.Com

Downloadable graphic organizers are available free from this site.

http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm?

eMints National Center

A collaborative effort between the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and University of Missouri System Office of Academic Affairs, this site is designed to provide teachers and students with professional development and support from certified instructional specialist. It includes a wide range of writing resources for teachers.

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000646.shtml?prnfriendly

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000357.shtml

Freeology.Com

The Teacher’s Freebie Directory provides downloadable graphic organizers and hundreds of writing prompts.

http://www.freeology.com/graphicorgs/

Grammar Bytes

An interactive site for the basics of grammar, games change periodically.

http://www.chompchomp.com/

Grammar Slammer

This website acts as a resource guide for all things related to grammar and includes rules and examples for all areas.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/gsdeluxe.htm

GED Testing Service

The GED Testing Service website provides examples of questions on the Language Arts, Writing portion of the GED plus information on the GED Tests.

http://www.gedtest.org

Graphic.Org

Wide variety of graphic organizers with information about their use.

http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Professor Charles Darling at Capital Community College has created this incredible resource on grammar and writing. The site provides information at the word and sentence, paragraph, and essay level.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Hacker Handbook

This interactive resource includes a series of quizzes to test student’s knowledge in all areas of grammar. These exercises were developed by Dianne Hacker at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland. Note: Shockwave is required to complete the exercises.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/exercises/

Hard Spell

This interactive spelling game includes hundreds of words and never uses the same list twice. It is challenging, but excellent for helping students with more difficult words. In Game 1 you must find the word that is spelled correctly. In Game 2, you find the incorrectly spelled word and correct it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hardspell/hardspell_game.shtml

High School Ace

A list of different language arts websites is provided, including commonly confused words, grammar and vocabulary lessons, and poetry.

http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

Look at the Six-Trait Analytical Assessment Model developed for evaluating writing. The six traits include ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. (The Presentations Trait has recently been added to make it 6+1 traits.) This site provides a wealth of information about the six traits, including lesson ideas and downloadable handouts.

http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/

Online Technical Writing: Online Textbook

This book was developed to provide users with basic technical writing skills which can help students improve their writing in class as well as in the workplace.

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/

Paradigm Online Writing

This is a comprehensive online textbook covering all aspects of the writing process.

http://www.powa.org/

Purdue University's OWL

One of the most extensive collections of advice about writing found on the web. About half of the more than 75 handouts address punctuation and grammatical issues and include exercises for the user. Others focus on style and reference formats and give advice about the writing process itself.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

RAFTS Northern Nevada Writing Project

The project includes print materials that may be purchased, as well as access to RAFTS prompts that can be generated electronically.

http://www.unr.edu/educ/nnwp/index.html

Region 15 Graphic Organizers

A wide range of downloadable graphic organizers (available in English and Spanish) are available on this site. Many organizers have multiple variations.

http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html

Rubric Bank

This site was established by Chicago Public Schools and includes rubrics for all subject areas. Teachers may access the rubrics as pdf files and may adapt them as needed.

http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/Rubric_Bank/WritingRubrics.pdf

Spell Check at Funbrain

This site provides two levels of difficulty. Excellent resource for students who have problems with spelling. 

http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html

Teaching Writing in Middle and High Schools

From the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratories, Strategies and activities are provided that can be used in the classroom.

http://www.nwrel.org/request/2004dec/principles.html

The Elements of Style

An easy-to-understand guide to correct grammar. This online version contains the complete original text. It is filled with tips on how to write clearly and correctly and how to avoid the most common grammatical errors.

http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html

The Internet Grammar Guide

An online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, this guide is useful to anyone who is interested in the English language.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/

The National Commission on Writing in America’s Schools and Colleges

This site includes research reports developed to focus national attention on the teaching and learning of writing. In addition to research reports, the site also provides access to The National Writing Project which includes 30 different activities for the classroom.

http://www.writingcommission.org

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

A wealth of information on the writing process, NCTE has developed national standards for assessment and evaluation in the area of English. One of the 29 standards for assessment and evaluation in the NCTE report states that "control of the conventions of Edited American English - spelling, handwriting, punctuation and grammatical usage should be developed primarily during the writing process.”

http://www.ncte.org/

The WAC Clearinghouse

This site publishes journals, books, and other resources for teachers who use writing in their courses.

http://wac.colostate.edu/index.cfm

The Writing Site

This site is maintained by the Corporation for Educational Technology and the Indiana Department of Education. The site includes extensive writing resources for the classroom teacher. 

http://www.thewritingsite.org

The Writing Source

Writings from different levels, including high school, can be located at this site. 

http://www.thewritesource.com/models.htm#inc

Wacky Web

Choose from over a dozen different story titles and then fill in the blanks for different parts of speech. After you've identified all the words, click and a nonsensical story will be made with them.

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

WebGrammar

This site includes general to specific grammar tips as well as a writing section with style guides and other resources.

http://www.webgrammar.com/

Word Games

This site includes eight word games that students can play alone or as a group.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/index.html

Writing Centre of the University of Ottawa

This site provides a HyperGrammar resource, as well as activities for the classroom.

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html

Writing Skills Necessary for Employment

A report on business and the need for writing within the workplace from the National Commission on Writing, College Board.

http://www.writingcommission.org/pr.writing_for_employ.html

An Online Library of Literature

Reading books online that can be downloaded free from this online library.

http://www.literature.org/

Augusta Technical College

This site provides reading strategies for students to use when reading different types of texts.

http://www.augusta.tec.ga.us/CounselingCenter/AcademicCounseling/readingStrategies.shtml

Authentic Assessment Toolbox

Extensive site developed by Jonathan Mueller. This site provides materials on how to use authentic tasks and/or assessments in the classroom.

http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbook/howdoyoudoit.htm.

Awesome Library Education Sites

Lists and links to the top 5% educational sites on the Internet. The list changes and adds new sites based on usage.

http://awesomelibrary.org/

California Distance Learning Project Online

Online learning activities for adult education students in a variety of content areas. The articles are high interest with questions and activities.

http://www.cdlponline.org/

Cerritos College Skills Tutorials

This site provides practice in different areas of reading. The materials are higher level.

http://www.cerritos.edu/reading/tutorials.htm

College Reading Skills Program Techniques for Skillful Reading

The College Reading Skills Program (CRSP) utilizes various vocabulary, critical comprehension, and reading rate strategies to encourage students in becoming more active and critical when they are engaged in the reading process.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~lrc/crsp/techniques.html

Critical Reading

This site explains how to analyze content, language, and structure in reading texts.

http;//www.criticalreading.com/

Dave’s ESL Café

This site offers idea pages for teachers, reading materials at different levels, and ESL websites.

http://eslcafe.com/

Detroit Newspapers in Education (NIE Online)

Sponsored by The Detroit News, NIE Online provides links to daily lesson plans for use in teaching current events. The site also includes an index of weekly plans.

http://nieonline.com/detroit/index.cfm

Discovery Channel

All types of interesting reading materials, as well as videos, can be found on the Discovery Channel.

http://www.discovery.com/

Education with Student News from CNN

This site provides teachers with instructional materials for integrating current events across the curriculum. A student section keeps students in grades 6-12 aware of the latest news of interest to them. Lesson plans, background material, profiles, links to useful Internet sites, and forums for interaction with other teachers are also included.

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

Graphic.Org

This site provides teachers with a wide variety of different types of graphic organizers with information about their use in the reading process.

http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html