Writing Resources
Diary writing prompt with Veera Hiranandani
Author Erin Entrada Kelly shares the contents of her notebooks
Author Elly Swartz shares tips on how to use emotion in your life to create authentic characters.
Chris Tebbetts shares a lesson on how to create a good beginning for a story.
Chris Tebbets gives a writing workshop called Four Elements of Character.
Joyce Sidman shares an amazing collection of poem starters for beginning poets.
Here’s a poetry lesson from Kathryn Apel – writing a didactic cinquain!
Author Madelyn Rosenberg shares a collection of writing prompts.
Author and poet Laura Shovan shares a collection of poetry mini-lessons on her website!
Tracey Baptiste shares a lesson on comparative mythology.
Sarah Darer Littman offers short readings and writing prompts on her website.
Author Lynn Plourde shares tips on starting an observation notebook.
Author Sarah Lynn Scheerger demonstrates how kids can find inspiration and use it in their writing.
Joyce Sidman shares an amazing collection of poem starters for beginning poets.
Author Madelyn Rosenberg shares a collection of writing prompts.
Here’s a collection of video mini-lessons from nonfiction author Melissa Stewart.
Author Victoria Coe has a playlist of writing lessons for kids with 25 lessons.
Author Sarah Darer Littman offers short readings and writing prompts on her website.
Author and illustrator Jess Keating discusses where ideas for stories come from.
www.judynewmanatscholastic.com
Reading, Writing
K - 2nd, 3rd - 5th, PreK-6
A Scholastic Publishing blog that offers free teacher-approved print-outs and activities geared toward kids in PreK through 6th grade. Each activity pairs with a Scholastic Book Clubs book.
Activities, Worksheets for printing
Writing Legends
https://www.writinglegends.com/
As part of our Assistance for Schools response to Coronavirus we have accelerated our release of Writing Legends to US schools and will be providing the program completely free of charge through to 31 July 2020. The regular price is $11.50 (USD) per student.
Writable
Reading, Writing, Social Studies, ESL, Special Education
3-12
https://www.writable.com/virtual-learning/
Writable powers virtual and in-person writing instruction across disciplines. It works with your tech (Google Classroom/LMSs & Docs), includes 600+ assignments (or create your own), guides feedback/peer review, and monitors writing growth to best help personalize learning.
Our entire program is free to all schools until the end of the school year.
Write the World
Writing
High School
The global writing community for students ages 13-18.
Write the World is a free writing platform for teens ages 13-18; they can share their writing in any genre, respond to writing prompts, enter monthly competitions, exchange feedback and ideas with fellow young writers from all over the world, and much more.
WordQ
Reading, Writing, ESL, Special Education
ALL
https://www.quillsoft.ca/covid-19
WordQ is a literacy support software that helps users of all ages reach their full potential as readers and writers by offering state-of-the-art word prediction, speech feedback, proofreading, enhanced topical web searches to help with research for assignments.
You will receive a complimentary extended license of WordQ 5
Wit & Wisdom
Reading, Writing
K - 2nd, 3rd - 5th, 6th - 8th
https://gm.greatminds.org/en-us/knowledgeonthego
Providing knowledge-building resources and daily instructional videos for English language arts (Grades K–8),
We are providing knowledge-building resources and written materials for math (Grades K–12) and daily instructional videos for English language arts (Grades K–8), math (Grades K-12), and science (Grades 3–5). We will post new video lessons and update our content daily. All can be found here: https://hubs.ly/H0nHh1F0
Typetastic
Keyboarding
K - 2nd, High School
K-12 Keyboarding Curriculum The extensive curriculum introduces students to more than 700 entertaining online keyboarding activities!
Keyboarding activities
Typing Club
Always free.
Always free.
Summit Writing Academy
Writing
6th grade - High School
https://www.summitwriting.net/pages/30-day-writing-challenge
An easy-to -follow set of writing challenges that will help your child develop a writing habit.
FREE 30-Day Writing Challenge - daily encouragement and writing challenges sent to your inbox.
Students 4SC: Online Editorial Writing Internship
https://students4sc.org/argumentative-writing-hybrid-internship/
An online internship and course on writing op-eds. All fees waived.
StoryJumper
Reading, Writing, Science, Social Studies, Fine Arts, ESL, Foreign Language, Special Education, STEM, Intervention Resources
3rd - 12th grade
With StoryJumper, any K-12 student can become a Published Author of a hardcover book that is delivered to their home. They'll have a great time showing their classmates their published book when school is back in session!
Write, collaborate, illustrate, and narrate books online for free: storyjumper.com/prices
Summit Writing Academy
Writing
6th grade - High School
https://www.summitwriting.net/pages/30-day-writing-challenge
An easy-to -follow set of writing challenges that will help your child develop a writing habit.
FREE 30-Day Writing Challenge - daily encouragement and writing challenges sent to your inbox.
Shurley English
The Shurley English program for grades K-8 provides a clear, logical, and concrete approach to language arts. Students grasp and retain even the most challenging concepts. Shurley English utilizes all learning styles and provides a logical connection between grammar, skills, and writing.
The Shurley English Digital Edition will be offered to teachers and students for free. This offer includes complete video instruction for each lesson through our Shurley English Digital Assistant: SEDA. No code required.
Rubin
Writing, ESL, Career and Technical Education
6th through higher ed
https://danny50f1e1.clickfunnels.com/squeeze-page1584126067584
Rubin is a leading provider of online training for business communication skills for K-12 and higher ed. We provide hands-on exercises for email etiquette, phone etiquette, networking, interpersonal skills and much more.
11 ready-made activities that cover email etiquette, life skills (ex: how to write your name in cursive) and how to create an entire LinkedIn profile). Each activity comes with student instructions, reference material, a lesson plan and a rubric!
Rockin Resources
Digital Educational Resources
A Free Subscription to 80 + Writing Mini Lesson Videos
PowerNotes
Writing, Screen Reading, Research, & Writing.
High School, Higher Education
https://www.blog.powernotes.com/evaluation
We designed PowerNotes to unify the steps of reading, gathering, saving, annotating, organizing, outlining, tracking, and citing research into a single, efficient workflow that feeds directly into the writing process.
Free premium accounts for students and instructors.
Pobble
Reading, Writing
K - 2nd, 3rd - 5th, 6th - 8th
Writing lesson sorted! Free daily, age specific writing lessons. No planning needed, accessible by parents and pupils with a single link click.
Free access for teachers to the daily lessons for as long as schools closures remain.
Pobble 365
Reading, Writing
K - 2nd, 3rd - 5th, 6th - 8th
Pobble 365 is a free, daily writing resource, used by over 20,000 teachers each day.
It is free - and always has been free! Enjoy!
Mindful Poetry Moments
https://www.thewell.world/mindful-music/mindful-poetry-moments
Mindful Poetry Moments is a free program that offers a chance to pause and reflect on poetry's ability to encounter ourselves, the world, and the mystery of each other. Participating schools, individuals and organizations will be offered recordings of poets — including Brad Aaron Modlin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carrie Newcomer and Gregory Orr - — reading their work from two of The On Being Project’s content offerings: the On Being with Krista Tippett radio show and podcast and/or Poetry Unbound podcast. The audio will be accompanied by mindful prompts and meaning-making questions like "Does this poem encourage gratitude? How?” and "What’s a line in this poem that brings a strong visual image to your mind?"
Always free.
LitFilmFest
Writing
3rd - 5th, 6th - 8th, High School
Create purposeful writing projects
Home writing challenges and a selection of free literacy projects to download.
EssayJack
Writing
6th - 8th, High School, Higher Education
https://www.essayjack.com/for-students
Students can practice essay writing through our smart templates. Templates guide writing using tips, prompts, interrogative q's. Can be used by students independently. If educators are interested to use it teaching writing remotely for their classes they can get in touch with us here hello@essayjack.com. We can set up access for them and their students. (https://www.essayjack.com/for-educators)
Free access to EssayJack, all our writing templates, and additional writing activities and modules we are putting together. All developed by our founder/CEO Dr. Lindy (former English Professor at Uof