Ms. Harris's List: Writing for Everyone: graphic organizers, writing process, types

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Writing with real writers: biography, descriptive writing, folktale, mystery, myth, news, poetry, speech, book review

Good one! This website serves as a homepage to other links and documents on writing. It includes 6 important elements: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, and Conventions. It provides examples of better word choices and includes activities to help you come up with ideas for writing. It even has a checklist and helps you find your voice.

This site gives a lot of information on the writing process. It includes sections on prewriting, writing, revising, editing, and publishing. Under each topic, you get helpful tips and suggestions. It teaches you what you need to know to become a successful writer.

This website includes different types of graphic organizers. There are ice-cream cone charts, story maps, idea wheels, and so on. These are fun ways to organize your writing in the planning stage.

Videos: This page provides videos on Prewriting, Drafting, and Revising. It also gives you helpful tips and suggestions for coming up with ideas. It teaches you about composition and then going back over your work, as well. Also, it includes animals in the videos to keep things interesting and exciting.

This page offers a picture dictionary to help identify what you are looking for. It includes topics you can click on (animals, school, sports, fruits, etc.) and provides a picture and the name of it. It is a great way to find the word you are looking for and expand your vocabulary!

Make a Newspaper!

Peer review chart