Pair any writing assignment with the Chrome extension, Read&Write to support students in being their best writers. This tools allows students to use a visual dictionary, have their writing be read back to them, use a word prediction tool, as well as many other supportive features.

Purpose: perform a functional task

• Formal letter

• Personal letter

• Test writing

• Writing about reading

Purpose: tell a story

• Fiction - realistic fiction, historical fiction, tall tale, fairy tale, myth, fable, legend, fantasy.

• Non-Fiction - Biography, Autobiography, memoir and narrative nonfiction

Purpose: explain or give facts

• Expository text

• News article, essay, report, speech

• Opinion

Purpose: persuade

•  Letter

• Speech

• Essay

• Editorial

Purpose: express feelings, sensory images, ideas or stories

• Free verse

• Narrative poem

• Ballad, limerick

• Haiku

• Concrete poem