Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process.Lesson Plan Resources:
Language Arts Mini Lessons- http://youth.net/cec/ceclang/ceclang-interm.html
Content Resources:This site is designed to give teachers fun, creative mini-lessons for English classes. It links to a number of other similar sites that include writing, vocabulary, and fun ways to learn English related topics. Each lesson plan states the purpose, objectives, materials needed, and the appropriate steps to follow to create a great learning experience. It provides a wonderful supplemental resource for teachers to gain new ideas and learning activites. The educational programs on this site, as well as the Youth Net server, are work of Linda Delzeit. She previously organized and managed Academy One(sm). The main objective of Youth Net is to keep all of the K-12 educational programs free to schools and students.
Language Arts Lesson Plans and Resources- http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edeng.htmThe purpose of this page is to provide a resource for teachers, giving them a multitude of lesson plans and ideas for teaching literature, reading, spelling, Writing, journalism, communication, debate, and drama. This site involves more than just writing skills and will put a large collection and wide variety of lesson plans at your fingertips. It is simple and easy to follow. It consists of over 1000 links to lesson plans and other resources, many that are unique to this site. These pages were originally developed primarily for use by education students at the College of Saint Benedict/ St.John's University.
MSPAP Reading/Writing/Language Usage- http://www.fsk.org/teachers/mspap/mspaplan.htmlInteractive Site for Students:This site provides a criteria for both teachers and students to use as a checklist of Learning Outcomes in reading and writing activities. It gives guidelines for a number of writing and reading objectives, such as the Development, Organization, Attention to the Audience, and writing styles to accomplish these objectives. It also gives guidance to defining the purpose of these objectives. This site was created by the Instructional Technology Elementary/Middle Magnet School At Francis Scott Key and focuses on the Outcomes and Indicators of theWritingDEN- http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/t-guide.htm
Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP).Created for students, this site will enhance their ability to develop the good communication skills that are essential in today's society. They will receive help in learning to listen, read, represent and write effectively. The ability to express yourself well in writing can be a great source of power. WritingDEN aims to supply this power by making it fun to learn to write.They have several key objectives. They are to improve writing skills, develop communication skills, and expand vocabulary.
Merit Software- http://www.essaypunch.com/Reference Resources:A great interactive site for students that takes them through the actual steps of writing a basic essay. They are able to develop an idea and write their own short essay that consists of an introduction, a two- to three-paragraph body, and a conclusion.
Rona's Ultimate Teacher Tools- http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/utt/index.htmWebliography:The Educators Network has only one mission.... to provide a UNIQUE OnlineLibrary in the Sky- http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
site where Educators can quickly and efficiently access resources and information. Here you will find a place to maximize your time with many different choices of ideas or content in areas that you will find useful. Reference Tools, such as links to dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias and more are available. Interactive and Financial helps are also part of this great site.The Library in the Sky is designed for teachers, students, and even parents. It is a database of more than 1390 educational web sites that you will find both interesting and useful. Material can be found through Search, User Tabs, by Department, or Materials. The Library in the Sky is an effort by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) to improve educational results for children by providing research and development assistance through educational programs. NWREL primarily serves the Northwest region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington and is part of a national network of 10 educational laboratories.
Web English Teacher- http://www.webenglishteacher.com/Homework Helplers:This site is specifically designed for English Teachers. It represents the best of online English/Language Arts teaching resources, such as: lesson plans, biography, e-texts, online criticism, videos, Webquests, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. It seeks to integrate the Internet into the classroom by giving teachers a vehicle to share ideas that work with colleagues around the world. You will want to bookmark this site and visit often!Kid Info- http://www.kidinfo.com/Language_Arts/Writing.htmlIn addition to the many links available, this site offers a special section on Writing. Included is the ABC's of the Writing Process which provides an overview of each stage of the process plus links to printable graphic organizers and prewriting strategies. It includes tips for writing a rough draft and moving from the rewriting stage to writing. The site also sponsors a Writing Process Club, where students can participate in a forum or chat with others to share their writing experiences. KID INFO is a homework resource that differs from other sites because it is organized according to the specific curriculum covered in elementary and middle schools.
The Kids on the Web: Homework Tools- http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids-homework.htmlThis site is designed to give students a resource to help with their homework. While it's still better to go to the library and use the actual printed works, there are times when you don't have one handy or the libraries and stores are all closed. This site was designed to make resources for homework more acessible. Kids on the Web has been in the top 50 great sites for kids and parents from the American Library Association; recognized as a NetGuide Gold Site; a Magellan 3-Star site; Winner of the CornerStone Foundation Site Award for Information; rated child-safe by SafeSurf; andcrecipient of the Interkid Award of Excellence.Back to Resources for K-12 Teachers of English
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