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This space is dedicated to resources to help with creating interesting, authentic writing opportunities within the classroom.
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Book Creator: Book Creator is a simple EdTech tool to create eBooks. Great, authentic way to have students share writing! Fun, engaging!!
Noisli: Start with the writing environment! Noisli is a white sound application to provide productivity or relaxation sounds that can increase your classroom focus; students could use on individual devices selecting their own combination of sounds, or you could use in the classroom. There's also a timer! Amazing!
ReadWriteThink: This NCTE-affiliated website offer students SO MANY classroom resources. You will get lost here. There are lesson plans complete with links and resources. Every grade level is represented. The search option is extremely helpful in finding what you need.
Kaizena: Kaizena is a site that allows teachers to give very personal feedback on a document in multiple formats: voice or text. Quickly share a voice comment at any place within a student's document for them to play, and hear your thoughts. So much faster than typing! But, if you prefer text, you can do that, too. Students can respond as well for two-way communication. Finally, and this is wonderful, you can attach a lesson that you have already taught--perhaps one about how to write a fantastic lead--to the document for a student to revisit. In addition, you can rank skills that students should be practicing so that they know how well they are understanding, and using, a skill to enhance their writing. Check it out and see if it is for you, and for your students!
WriteAbout: WriteAbout is a site that offers students a digital platform to write and publish for an authentic audience. Teachers can offer feedback, too. Teachers can create specific groups, and students can respond to one another. Not a free site but does have a free trial.
Storybird: Storybird is a creative website where writers select artwork, and use the artwork as inspiration to write a story or poem. Storybird is not a free site, but it is highly creative and engaging.
Kidblog: Kidblog is an easy-to-use blogging site. It is safe, simple, and provides students with authentic opportunities to write. Not a free site.
Little Bird Tales: This website provides students with a similar experiences to Storybird, however, artwork is much more expansive and individual. Students can upload photos, draw and paint their own illustrations. The process is fun for students of all ages, including adults! Try for free but must pay fee after. Teachers from special needs classrooms to general education classrooms will enjoy unique options such as the ability to listen to verbal instructions, record voice and verbal responses, or using the traditional keyboard. The site also offers pre-designed lessons to integrate or inspire classroom lessons.
Pen Pal Schools: Pen Pal Schools offers teachers a way for students to connect with other students around the globe. Pre-designed units are 6 weeks and targeted toward students who are ages 9 and up. Each week students work on a new module and answer questions that their pen pal can read and respond to; in addition, students can write their own questions and ideas, too. Excellent opportunity for authentic communication. Students are linked to teacher accounts so teachers can see what students are writing and guide ideas, conversations or reflect on shared perspectives. Social Studies and Language Arts together!
PDF Mergy is an app that you can obtain from the Google Play store and perfect if you use Google Classroom. It allows you to select all of your students' writing and merge all documents into one PDF document that you can then seamlessly print for conferences or to share in school hallways, and more.
Argumentative Writing:
Here are some websites with argumentative writing resources:
Here are some websites with argumentative writing resources:
iCivics website is a site with more than writing information available!