Writing a Movie: Summarizing and Rereading a Film Script
This lesson plan uses films to develop descriptive writing.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=200
Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing
This lesson plan develops awareness of persuasive writing techniques.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=56
English Language Arts 6–9: Sample Units
The Saskatchewan Board of Education provides a link to several unit plans that incorporate the entire writing process and explore different genres of writing.
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/sample.html
Teachers.net Reading and Writing Lesson Bank
This site provides numerous reading and writing lessons submitted by practicing teachers.
http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Reading
Write Net
Resources for teachers and writers can be found here. The site offers discussion forums about writing, ideas for teaching poetry with K–12 students, and chat archives with authors and poets.
http://www.twc.org/forums/index.html
Help your child learn to write well—U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement
This site gives teachers a convenient resource to share with parents in order to encourage literacy practices at home.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Writing/index.html
Publishing with Students
This site has lists of writing competitions students can enter and there are suggestions for publishing students' work.
http://www.publishingstudents.com
ABC Teach
Here teachers will find resources to create shape books with their students.
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/shape_books
Tech-it & Take-it: Let's Make Books
Click on links at this site to make pop-up books, accordion books, and many other designs.
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks.html
Get Writing with "Weekend News"
This standards-based lesson plan, for students in kindergarten to grade 2, encourages children to write about their weekend and to create their own books.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=102
