Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tricks
Quick and Dirty Tips by grammar guru, Mignon Fogarty, on proper use of grammar to improve your writing.
Ideas to Inspire
A collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. 34 ideas for inspiring writing.
In the moonlight a worm
Offers teachers and students an introduction to writing haiku poems, a chance to study the history and nature of haiku poetry and an introduction to the fundamental principles of creative writing.
National Writing Project
Learn new strategies to help their students become accomplished writers and learners. 30 ideas for teaching writing.
Scholastic
Numerous resources and activities to prompt good writing for preK to grade 12.
Pen Strokes
Writing contest for Durham District School Board students in Grades 1 through 12.
Teacher’s Lounge (Young Poets)
Workshop ideas, poetry teaching links, and resources. You’ll also find a forum especially for teachers where you can share ideas, questions, theories, and complaints.
Teachers’ Timely Topics
Inspire young writers. Tap into students’ creativity and encourage them to think critically about topics with focused writing activities. Promote writing across subject areas and cover everything from grammar basics to fantasy-writing inspiration.
The English Tree
Resources for English teachers.
Two Writing Teachers Website Two Writing Teachers Blog
Teaching Kids, Catching Minds. 565 Miles Apart. A blog and site written by two writing teachers as a way to assist all teachers in their classrooms as they’re progressing through units of study. There are rubrics, strategy chart ideas, lists of touchstone texts, etc.
Writing Prompts: For the Right Brain
Inspiring students to be recklessly creative when beginning new writing. Provided by WritingFix.
Write Source
A group of teachers and writers who develop materials for students and instructors from kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Youth Voices
A meeting place where students, share, distribute and discuss their digital work online