Lesson Plans:

• Writing Lesson Ideas from Teachnet.Com
  http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/writing/index.html
  
  

Resources:

• Ask an Author from the Internet Public Library
  http://aristotle.sils.umich.edu/youth/AskAuthor/
  
  
• B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
  http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
  
  
• CBC 4 Kids: Words
  http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/words/default.html
  
  
• Children's Writing Resource Center
  http://www.write4kids.com
  
  
• Copy Editing for Magazines course outline by Mindy McAdams
  http://www.well.com/user/mmcadams/copy.editing.html
  
  
• The Editorial Eye Focusing on Publications Standards and Practices
  http://www.eeicom.com/eye/
  
  
• The Electric Post Card by Judith Donath
  http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/
  
  
• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
  http://www.bartleby.com/141/
  
  
• English Language Curricula and Resources from Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College Columbia University
  http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext/topics/
  
  
• Fun with Words a ThinkQuest site.
  http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111282/
  
  
• Grammar Safari provides suggestions for "hunting" and "collecting" examples of specific words as they are used in documents accessible on the Web
  http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html
  
  
• Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch
  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
  
  
• Help Your Child Learn to Write Well a Department of Education Publication for Parents
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Writing/index.html
  
  
• Incredible Story Studio
  http://www.storystudio.com/
  
  
• KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15 A world where kids can join together and talk.
  http://www.kidlink.org/
  
  
• Let's Write! a Department of Education Publication for Parents
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/LearnPtnrs/write.html
  
  
• Love Letters from the Cyrano Server
  http://www.nando.net/toys/cyrano.html
  
  
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources by Janice R. Walker
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
  
  
• Night Bubble, a feature of Doodoland E-zine, offers children's stories and illustrations
  http://www.swifty.com/azatlan/nightbub.htm
  
  
• The Professional Writers' Source
  http://www.cloud9.net/~kvivian/
  
  
• Purdue University On-line Writing Lab
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
  
  
• Scriptito's Place, especially for young people ages 7-15, publishes pieces that young people have written to put a spotlight on talent.
  http://members.aol.com/vangarnews/scriptito.html
  
  
• StudyWeb English Resources from American Computer Resources. Go to site and choose "writing" heading.
  http://www.studyweb.com/
  
  
• University Press Bias-Free Guidelines--At Last! from the Editorial Eye
  http://www.eei-alex.com/eye/biasfree.html
  
  
• A Word a Day
  http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
  
  
• Word Central helps kids build their vocabulary
  http://www.wordcentral.com/
  
  

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