Teacher resources
Lesson Planning Resources
Teacher Communication Resources
Other good resources
Evidence of Learning 2.0 (an example of Live Binder)
Writing Toolkit
General Writing Resources
- Brain Pop–The Writing Process
- Skills Wise–Interactive Writing Activities
- Brain Pop–How to write a 5-paragraph essay
- 5 Paragraph Essay
- How to write an academic essay
- Writing Fun
- Bank of Essay Models
- Great Source Write–online tutorials
- BBC Bitesize–Check out “Argument” and “Comment”
- Writing Fix–From the Northern Nevada Writing Project
- Great Source–Persuasive Essays
Vocabulary, Brainstorming and Generating Ideas
- BBC–Making sentences
- Words A Like–find similar words
- Lexipedia–Visual thesaurus and dictionary
- Visuwords–Online graphical dictionary
- Got Brainy-Quick videos explaining vocabulary
- VocabAhead–Vocabulary videos
- Brain Pop–Antonyms, Synonyms and Homonyms
- ESL Bee–Practice English Quizzes
- Bubbl.Us–Brainstorm online
- ExploraTree–Interactive graphic organizers online
- Mindmeister–Excellent mind mapping tool
- Mindomo–Mind mapping tool
- ReadWriteThink–Graphic organizer
- Adjectives–Liven up your writing
Organizing
- Essay Map–Online tool to plan out your essay
- WiseMapping–Online mind mapping tool
- Literary Elements Mapping–graphic organizers
- ReadWriteThink: Persuasion map
Drafting
- Writing Tips
- How to write a paragraph
- Essay Punch–Interactive essay writing tutorial (one FREE demo)
Revising and Editing
- A.nnotate–upload a page and annotate it
- Crocodoc–Upload, share and mark up documents online
- Editing Checklist Practice
- Power Proofreading
- Paper Rater–Online spell and grammar checker and proofreading
Publishing
- Edublogs–Blogging for teachers and students
- Soup–Micro blogging site
- Posterous–Micro blogging site
- Diary–Micro blogging site up to 255 words
- KidBlogs–kid friendly
- Tikatok–Create your own book, story or essay online
- Bookemon–Create your own book online
Writing Responses to Literature
- Similes and Metaphors
- Using similes to enhance your writing
- Paraphrasing
- Writing dialogue
- Citing sources
- Name that literary element
- Online plot diagram