Annenberg Foundation On-line course for teachers on teaching writing. Includes video segments, articles, worksheets, and instruction in best writing practices.
A.V.I.D. resources. Help for developing reading, writing, study skills and critical thinking.

A.V.I.D. Writing as a Tool to Learning.

Colorin Colorado. Links to sites with templates for creating class newsletters, brochures, flyers, and more. Especially helpful for ELL Spanish speakers.

The MiddleWeb Reading/Writing Workshop Project Resource Page. Contains .pdf files and other links to reading curriculum.

6 Trait Writing Lesson Plans. Choose the grade level and specific writing trait you want lessons plans for.

6-Trait Writing Prompts: narrative, expository and persuasive.

Summarizing and Notetaking Links to multiple ways to summarize and take notes.

Teaching Critical Thinking Skills. This website is devoted to helping teachers teach critical thinking and inquiry in the classroom. It includes sample lessons, articles, and other resources for teachers.

Writing Fix. A great writing resource developed by the Northern Nevada Writing Project.

The ABC's of the Writing Process: Specific Graphic Organizer Links. Includes explanation of use, print and use, and examples of use sections.

Education Place Graphic Organizers. A free site with numerous graphic organizers. Each graphic organizer can be printed in English or Spanish.

Tools, Tips and Techniques to integrate critical thinking. Developed by Jim Burke. A link on his englishcompanion.com site.

Gaggle.net Provides a safe place for teachers and students to blog on classroom topics of interest.

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

Nicenet.org provides a protected online classroom for students to see writing assignments, post their work, and respond to each others writing. Teacher must establish a free account and provide students with a class code.

ReadWriteThink Writing Interactives. Multiple sources for student interactive writing activities. Awesome!

Teen Lit. Accepts student-written book reviews. Includes web guides, a writer's forum, educators links and more.

Teen Ink Magazine. A magazine written for teens by teens. Contains fiction and non-fiction articles, poetry, book, movie and music reviews, art work, interviews and more. A great resource for student reading or for students to submit their writing.

The Writing Center Handouts. Would you like a short description of how to use commas, how to write a compare/contrast essary, or how to write to a specific audience? Then this is the site for you. Includes specific handouts for writing the paper, grammar and mechanics, specific writing assignments, and writing for specific fields.

Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment prompts by Jane Bell Keister.

Cornell Notes Introduction.

Cornell Note Taking System.

How to simplify the paper load. This pdf gives teachers some practical tips on how to handle the paper load in classes which assign a great deal of writing.

Marzano Summarization Frames.These frames provide specific questions that students need to answer to write complete summaries for various types of text structures.