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Building Language and Literacy
Online games for young writers.

Comic Creator
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own online comic strips with pictures and texts for a variety of contexts.

Grammar Gorillas
Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana.

Grammar Practice Park
Play Grammar games to improve your skills.

Ideas and Resources for Teaching Literacy
Templates and ideas for teaching writing.

Online Sentence Builder
Bring language to life with the Interactive Sentence Builder.

Proofreading Makes Perfect
Online exercises in capitalization and punctuation, spelling and usage.

Putting Sentences Together
Can you spot the joining words and choose the best joining words to put sentences together?

Read Write Think Student Interactives
These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills.

Story Starters
Writing activities to try every day.

The Plural Girls
Twin sisters Pearl and Flora lost their friends in the bubble machine. Help them get their friends out by choosing the correct plural form of the given word.

Whacky Tales
These are the stories that Dictionary Jenkins has started. Click on the story you want to help finish.

Writing: Teaching Detail and Development
Exercises that can be done by students individually, in small groups, or as a whole class activity.

Lessons (33)

Authentic Writing Experiences and Math Problem-Solving Using
This activity is a great way to integrate writing with math problem-solving.

Diagram It - Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfi
This lesson introduces second-grade students to different types of nonfiction writing.

Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
This activity is very useful in helping students work with sequential content that includes character action, problem and solution.

Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
By writing several messages with varied purposes, students begin to experience that journal writing can serve many purposes. It can help them remember; make sense of new information and ideas; and rec

From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
In this lesson, students use factual information gathered from the Internet as the basis for creating a nonfiction story.

Get Writing with News
In this lesson, which is meant to be conducted each Monday, students are asked to write about one newsworthy event or activity from their weekend.

Help from Mother Goose
This lesson will help children grow as readers and writers using the familiar words and characters of nursery rhymes.

How Does My Garden Grow? Writing in Science Field Journals
This lesson plan invites students to observe and explore their environment in much the same way.

Note Writing At A Message Centre
In this activity, children write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment others.

Note Writing in the Primary Classroom
This lesson invites students to write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request or compliment, providing many natural opportunities for meaningful writing and lots of practice in encoding/decodin

Peer Edit With Perfection: Teaching Effective Peer-Editing S
In this lesson, students use a three-step peer-editing process that consists of compliments, suggestions, and corrections.

Persuasive Writing: What Can Writing in Family Message Journ
By involving children in writing several messages with varied purposes, each related to school activities, this lesson helps students discover the power of writing to serve their needs.

Primary English Resources
Activities at the word, sentence and text level.

Read a Song: Using Song Lyrics for Reading and Writing
In this lesson, students make the connection that the words sung in a song are part of a book that can be read.

Read Write Think K-2 Writing Lessons
Large collection of lesson plans for K-2.

Reading and Writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfictio
This lesson teaches first- and second-grade students how to formulate research questions and write letters.

Stepping from Pictures to Writing
In this activity, students draw a series of pictures that tell a simple, sequential story.

Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
In this lesson for students in second or late first grade, teachers help students explore the concepts of beginning, middle, and ending by reading a variety of stories and then applying them using sto

Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
This lesson supports first-grade students in learning about audience.

Teaching Literacy in Year 1
Collection of literacy lesson plans for Year 1.

Telling a Story About Me: Young Children Write Autobiographi
This lesson plan teaches these skills while drawing from the lives of first- and second-grade students who will write and publish autobiographies based on personal photographs.

Use Photos To Write Stories
This activity has children write about photos and then choose their favorite sentences for a homemade memory book.

Using Children\'s Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive W
For this lesson, students will make a class book.

Webquests K-2
Collection of webquests for K-2.

What’s the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare E-mail with
In this lesson, students explore the differences between e-mail and letter writing by contrasting and identifying different forms, and experimenting with their own e-mail and letter compositions.

Write Descriptive Sentences
This multi-session activity uses students’ speaking vocabularies to help them learn about complete sentences.

Writer\'s Workshop Grade 2
Writer\'s Workshop is a teaching technique that invites students to write by making the process a meaningful part of the classroom curriculum.

Writer’s Toolbox: Helping Teachers Teach Writing
Provides teachers with resources and information to help them teach writing through Writer’s Workshop in the hopes of improving student writing.

Writing With Environmental Print
In this lesson, students read words found on everyday objects and use them to identify individual letters.

Writing With Writers
Learn how to write from authors, editors, and illustrators.

Writing Workshop Mini Lesson
These writing lessons were written with first grade in mind.

Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose Topics
This lesson, conducted in a workshop format, helps young writers bring greater focus to their writing.

Young Writers Workshop
Use one of these Young Writers Workshop pages to help get kids started.

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Teacher Reference (17)

103 Things to Do Before, During and After Reading
View this article for a collection of interactive activities that help kids become more involved in the stories that they read.

Core Elements of Writing KS1
Links to documents related to teaching writing in KS1.

Gaining a New, Wider Audience: Publishing Student Work on th
All about more authentic writing tasks that are initiated by students.

Grade 2 Writing Samples and Analysis
Writer\'s Workshop is a teaching technique that invites students to write by making the process a meaningful part of the classroom curriculum.

Ideas for Teaching Writing
Ideas for the writing process, modes of writing, writing across the curriculum and the Six Trait Writing Model.

Kid Writing
Watch this video of a writing lesson.

Making Books With Children
Making books encourages literacy and creativity and builds bridges across the generations.

Publishing Student Writing -- and Your Own
Ideas for publishing student writing.

Pupil Writing Targets: Year 2 – Teaching Suggestions
Targets for Year 2 students.

Ros Wilson Writing Levels
Ros Wilson writing levels in a handy Excel tool.

Six Trait Posters
The Six Trait Posters are available in both Word and PDF formats.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative
Teachers and Writers Discussion Group is an unbelievably valuable resource for writers and teachers interested in teaching imaginative writing.

Teaching Resources KS1 Writing
Support Materials for Teaching writing to KS1.

The Standards Site: Early Years Writing
Material to help teachers and practitioners teach writing in the Reception year of the Foundation Stage and through Key Stage 1.

Writer\'s Workshop Year 2
Writer\'s Workshop is a teaching technique that invites students to write by making the process a meaningful part of the classroom curriculum.

Writing Strategies for Year 1
Summary of writing strategies for Year 1.

Writing Syllabus - Early Childhood
This document provides an overview of the knowledge, skills and understandings that students need to be taught in order to achieve the Writing outcome in the Early Childhood phase of development.

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