A website with a stack of lesson plans and student interactives to get students started with their writing. There are researching and organising tools, poetry scaffolds, prose proformas, comic creators plus plenty more.
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Name your newspaper, give the edition a date, then write your story. When you're done hit generate to get your very own newspaper clipping which can be saved or embedded.
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Recipes for Writing - A handy site with recipes to good writing for a variety of genres. In addition there are links to appropriate online tools or generators, worksheets or other sites. Recipes are in a PDF format for downloading and printing.
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A fantastic site by Jenny Eather. Contains text organisers for each of the text types as well as samples of each text type for each grade level. Terrific for use on an IWB but can also be used by individual students to type their own text using the scaffolds provided. Completed texts can be printed off from the website. Only available with a subscription now.
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Descriptive Writing Prompts
Here are some terrific sites where students can create their own monsters, cars, robots, cakes and more. I love using these as a descriptive writing stimulus. I've always found kids love to write about their own creations.