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AdLit.org is all about adolescent literature. On AdLit teachers can find book lists, video interviews with authors, and a comprehensive list of strategies for teaching reading and writing. The strategies page gives detailed descriptions of how to implement each strategy

BBC RaW has great interactive writing exercises.  The best two are Writing Stories and Every Picture Tells A Story.

The Biography Maker...These online lessons explain what a biography should be and walk writers through questioning, learning, synthesis, and story-telling. The site includes embedded links to relevant Internet resources and tips for effective writing.

Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist people of all ages in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives. Watch some of stories...

Cinema (Grades 9-12)…Write your own dialogue for a scene or put yourself in a producer's shoes by managing the production of a film.

Creative Writing for Teens - All About Writing: Communicating Creative Ideas,Dark Poems / Prose,Dictionaries, etc.,Editing / Revising, ePublishing, Games / Fun, Grammar Help, etc
DigiTales - Welcome to a world of resources, examples and training opportunities to inspire your own digital storytelling tales! Visit the storymaking steps, toolkits and galleries of digital stories designed to help jump start beginners.

EasyBib is similar to other bibliography-generating programs... What sets this site apart from the other programs is that it has a fairly exhaustive list of source types to choose from: e-mail, cartoon, lecture, dictionary, advertisement…72 options in all.

Elements of Language Model Bank...presents a collection of writing models designed to help students learn to write a wide variety of essay types common to both middle school and high school writing. It covers just about every type of writing exercise.

NEW Essay Map is a handy tool from the folks at Read Write Think...provides students with step by step guidance in the construction of an informational essay... particularly good for helping students visualize the steps needed to construct good introductory and conclusion paragraphs.
Essaypunch - takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic essay.
Guide to writing a basic essay - If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself. You will be responsible only for supplying ideas, which are the important part of the essay anyway.

“Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully—in Ten Minutes.”...Improve your Writing with Free Advice from Stephen King

Great Source iwrite Everything educators, students, and parents need to make the writing process work in the classroom and at home

Issuu - You Publish...Read the World. Publish the World. I social network for web publishing and collaboration.
Journalism Theme Page - CLN pages which can supplement the study of journalism

KnightCite ...Automatic citation generator is provided by Calvin College. Choose from MLA, APA, or Chicago citation styles in the upper left corner. Then, fill in the appropriate information, and this page creates your citation, which can then be copied and pasted as needed.

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX!...Make your own comic ...Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages ...Teachers can use this comic strip game to encourage youngsters to improve language, reading, and creative skills. For those who teach young and old how to read and write or to learn English as a second language...

New York City Writing Project...mission is to improve the teaching of language and literacy in New York City public schools by increasing teachers’ ability to use writing as a tool for learning and communication in all subject areas. Fundamental to the NYCWP’s work are beliefs in writing, reading, and thinking as interrelated activities and in teacher-to-teacher professional development.

OWL - Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab

Panraven has introduced a whole new way to tell stories...Share stories through simple clickable links, which open a full-screen story viewer within the recipient's web browser...Combine any number of photos, video and text in any arrangement throughout a story...Add an audio track to play while your story is viewed....free

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant ...Paradigm helps students think about what goes into a writing before they ever start to draft. There are sections on discovering what to write, organizing, revising and editing your writing. Also several types of essays are addressed: thesis/support, argumentative, exploratory, and informal. There is enough content for teachers to send students to Paradigm for online guidance, or teachers might want to use the resource to guide their own classroom instruction.
Paragraph Punch - This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic paragraph.

PicLits...is an interesting website that aims to provide inspiration for writing short stories. PicLits tries to accomplish this goal by providing users with images upon which they can build their writing. To get writers started, PicLits provides a list of words which can be dragged and dropped into sentence form. If you don't need a word list, you can select the "freestyle" option to begin free-form writing.

Plinky, like Quotes Daddy, is a good place to find writing prompt ideas. Plinky provides users with a new writing prompt everyday. The benefit of Plinky over other writing prompt websites is that once you've created an account you can see how other Plinky users responded to the prompt.

Plotbot is web-based screenwriting software. You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want—here's nothing to install, it's free, and it's easy to use!
Power Proofreading - Fun, interactive exercises for proofreading

Protagonize is a great Web 2.0 application that allows users to write their own stories, and contribute to the stories of others, as a kind of “Choose Your Own Adventure,”  like the Goosebumps books.  Writers can easily develop different alternatives that readers then have to choose.
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab - has been serving the Purdue community and the rest of the world over the Internet since 1993. We offer: a web site with materials and resources e-mail tutoring a free weekly e-mail newsletter about writing You can take a virtual OWL tour to learn

Quotes Daddy, as you might guess from the name, is a compendium of quotes from famous and not-so-famous people. Each day new quotes are featured on the homepage of Quotes Daddy. If you have a class blog you can add a Quotes Daddy widget to your blog. Great for writing prompts.

Simile of the Day Generator - This gizmo pairs one of 141 abstract nouns (fear, destiny, etc.) with one of 236 concrete nouns (a submarine, a tightrope, or a 1994 Ford Tempo—seriously) for some fun similes that will bring out your students’ creativity.

StoryMaker is a simple tool for creating digital stories. Using audio, pictures and text you can create storyboards, slideshows and much much more.

Story Plant ... students are guided to create a simple story....offers audio support for the text you see on the screen.
Superteach - Check your proofreading skills. Proofreading Exercises

NEW The Story Starter is a simple website that randomly generates story starting sentences. If you don't like the sentence generated for you, simply click the story starter button again for a different sentence.

New Story Top is a good tool for getting students online and creating stories quickly. The user interface is easy to use and offers just enough features to allow students to create digital comics that they can be proud of.

Values to Pass On ...the Foundation for a Better Life has created an interactive site for stories based on an alphabetical list of 50+ values, ranging from Ambition to Vision. Each label leads to a page where users may post audio, written, and video stories related to that particular value. It is in blog-format, which should appeal to today's generation. This is an excellent site for class discussions, essay-writing, narrative writing, etc.

Virtual Traveller... students can choose a place from around the world; listen to someone speaking in simple English about it; type notes when they’re listening; write a short summary; choose pictures; and then print it all out.

Writers' Dreamtools has extensive information on what was going on every decade back to 1650. Births, deaths, major events, slang, music....it's handy detailed information for authors doing period pieces.

Writer's Digest has prepared 52 Writing Prompts—idea joggers and brain starters—to get your writing going.

NEWWriting Fix is a comprehensive resource for writing teachers that features a random story prompt generator. ...each prompt is created and submitted by real people and is reviewed by an educator before being included in the pool of prompts. It also features so much more than just a random story prompt generator. Exploring the website a visitor will find ideas and plans for teaching all aspects of writing. ...offers a number of teaching strategies including a creative use of Post-It Notes and if you're looking for online learning activities for your students, Writing Fix has a nice collection in their classroom tools section.

Writers' Window is a site for school aged young writers (aged from 5 to 18) to publish their writing. We publish all writing that complies with our guidelines.

Writing Matters is an online portal for language arts digital curriculum, but also a website teachers can use to create and publish student work online for free.

yWriter... Free novel-writing software...provides you with a whole bunch of useful tools...