This project lets you exchange postcards with classrooms in other communities. Registration begins now, with the exchange beginning in September, 2001 until May 2002. You can get

Students of English who limit their study of grammar to what they find in grammar books are like naturalists who limit their study of nature to an encyclopedia. Once you leave the safe confines of the grammar books, you begin to learn all kinds of interes

Worksheets online to help our children or students tackle Manuscipt (printing) or Cursive letters. Sheets for manuscipt handwriting include months of the year, days of the week, and basic sentences such as "I live at..."

Kairos is a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Each issue presents varied perspectives on special topics

This site gets a lot of traffic and posts plenty of stories written by children and teenagers. Rather than see this as a "vanity press" where the main objective is to see yourself in print, teachers could use it as a searchable resource for sample storie

Kids on the Net was one of the first websites on the internet to invite children to submit their writing. Now there are thousands of Kids on the Net writers - have a read! We want children all over the world to send us your writing - poems, stories, artic

At LandaBooks, we take a three-pronged approach to helping everyday writers and speakers improve their skills. Our on-site training hones business and professional writing. Our books focus on the grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary topics that cause most

Take your students on an amazing journey of imagination! In this project, a student in one classroom draws a monster, writes a detailed description of the creation, then e-mails the composition to a student in another classroom. Next, the student who re

The free online reference and guide for English grammar, writing, punctuation and learning. You can test your English, use the reference sections or apply for our premium subscription services which will give you access to top-quality, professional Englis

Developed by Professor Chuck Guilford of Boise State University, 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.

Have you ever looked at a student's written work and thought "What is this student trying to say?" "Plain language is an approach to communication that begins with the needs of the reader." This website explains how to identify the reader, organize ideas

Start the year out right by giving 4th to 8th grade students information to help them complete a research project; access tips, worksheets, and resources that help build information literacy skills.

One of the ways to communicate clearly is to write a clear and concise essay. If this is a skill you are trying to teach your students, this website will give you multiple ways to achieve that goal.

The purpose of this web site is to create an environment where anyone can create a story using the mythical hero structure described by Joseph Campbell. The site includes an extensive reference section, ideas and examples, and a "StoryTool" for creating o

As a young English teacher, did you ever look with envy at the file cabinets of your elder colleagues? The wonderful handouts that must exist in there! Well, Purdue University's OWL (Online Writing Lab) has posted a hugely comprehensive set of handouts

This Website provides short introduction on what essays are and various types of essays. It also guides the writer through the writing process with a series of brief articles.

Introduces middle schoolers to the world of journalism. Trace the history of journalism in the United States, learn how to find the information you need .

This Northern Illinois University website contains good resources for instructors, students and tutors. Editor's Grammar and Mechanics tutors students on editing terminology and punctuation and allows students to quiz themselves. The use of quotations and

This website is designed to help young writers come up with new ideas and stories and poems, turns of phrase, words and plots. It is a membership site (Writing Room members log in through the notebook) but anyone can use its resources and read the work of

Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book is a complete and free introduction to the basic syntactic structure of Modern English and the most common prescriptive errors in formal writing. The website is interactive in the sense that it contains thousands o

"Write On!" founder Dallas Woodburn is releasing her second book, 3 a.m. (a collection of stories), in June 2005! This amazing collection includes stories that won a Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, first place in Byline Magazine's N

Writer's Digest is the world's leading magazine for writers, founded in 1920. Writer's Market, the bible for writers seeking to publish their work, was first published in 1921. Together, they form the foundation of a wide range of informational, instructi

Children's author Deborah Morris hosts the Young Writers' Clubhouse where budding authors get advice and can enter a contest every three months. A monthly Web Chat and E-mail link make this author of the Real Kids, Real Adventures series accessible to he