Internet Resources for Written Expression



Internet Resources for Written Expression

 

|Research |Organizations |Resources for Kids, Parents & Teachers |Commercial Sites |

|ldonline has a reprint of a research |The National Council of Teachers of |High School Hub has good links for spelling,|Inspiration and Kidspiration are useful tool|

|article published in JLD, Using |English has reading and writing tools and|vocabulary, grammar, writing, poetry, and |to create graphic organizers for the |

|Technology to Enhance the Writing Process|resources for all grade levels, from |literature among others. Very inclusive |planning stages of writing. Version 7.5 of |

|of Students with Learning Disabilities, |elementary to college levels. |site. |Inspiration has 10 new writing templates. |

|by Charles MacArthur. | | | |

|The University of Maryland Research |  |English- is an interactive site with|Don Johnston has developed several |

|Center has articles on Self-Regulated | |lessons and quizzes on grammar,verbs, |technology tools to assist students with |

|Strategy Development in Writing (SRSD) | |spelling, and vocabulary from easy to |learning disabilities in writing, including |

|developed by Steve Isaacson and Karen | |advanced. It even has the Dolch basic word |Draft:Builder, Co:Writer, and Write:Outloud.|

|Harris. | |list. | |

|ldonline has a reprint of an article that|  |Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is an |AlphaSmart and Dana are portable, relatively|

|was published in LDR&P by Steve Graham & | |interactive writer's guide and handbook. |inexpensive word processors. Teachers can |

|Mary Gleason, Mechanical Obstacles to | |Even though it is supposed to be for the |test drive an AlphaSmart for 30 days. |

|Writing: What Can Teachers Do to Help | |inexperienced to advanced, the site appears | |

|Students with Learning Prolems? | |more appropriate for advanced. | |

|  |  |Write on is a web site developed by |The Writer, a portable writing tool, has |

| | |Jefferson County Schools in TN to improve |many built-in features, including writing |

| | |the composition skills for 4th and 5th |prompts, rubrics, journals, spell check, and|

| | |graders. It has writing prompts, journals, |thesaurus. |

| | |student compositions, and some great links. | |

|  |  |Writing Den, for students grades 6-12 |Lintor Publishing produces template-based |

| | |seeking to improve their reading and writing|software to work with word processing |

| | |skills. Includes 3 levels of difficulty with|programs to enable students to publish their|

| | |Real Audioclips. |own books. |

|  |  |The International Reading Association, the |Yak-Yak software is used to improve language|

| | |National Council of English Teachers, and |skills for people with learning disabilities|

| | |the Marco Polo Educational Foundation |in 4 languages. There is a link to the |

| | |sponsor read*write*think. Site contains |English Wordfinder. |

| | |resources on reading and language arts | |

| | |instruction. | |

|  |  |Blogs, a popular cultural phenomenon, are |Franklin Electronics produces a variety of |

| | |online personal journals that are free and |speaking dictionaries in English and |

| | |require no knowledge of HTML. Blogger and |Spanish. |

| | |other blog sites can provide teachers and | |

| | |student writers access to instant | |

| | |publishing. | |

 

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