A Calendar of Daily Writing Prompts

Toasted Cheese is a site that offers a monthly calendar of daily writing prompts. The whole month is laid out for you with a different prom...

Seven Good Sources of Writing Prompts

On Sunday I shared my ideas for using picture collages as writing prompts . I realize that creating a collage isn't always feasible or a...

StoryToolz - Writing Prompts and More

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like t...

Students Will Enjoy Creating Fiction Stories With These Story Starters

Scholastic Story Starters is a great tool that students will enjoy using to create short, creative fiction stories. Scholastic Story Starte...

7 Good Sources of Creative Writing Prompts

For some students the hardest part of starting a creative writing assignment is generating an idea to write about. Here are seven good sourc...

Picture Book Maker - Create Children's Stories

Earlier today I wrote about Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street. After playing with the Stop Frame Animator I tried out another of Cult...

Need a Creative Writing Prompt? Try This

The Imagination Prompt Generator randomly generates prompts for starting a fictional story.  Imagination Prompt Generator is part of the Cr...

5 Ways for Students to Publish in Under a Minute

There are many excellent platforms that teachers and students can use to create and maintain a blog throughout the school year. Depending up...

60 Second Lectures from U Penn

Larry Ferlazzo has discovered another great little source of "TED Talk -like" videos. The 60 Second Lectures is a series of one ...

Toasted Cheese - A Daily Writing Prompts Calendar

Image Credit Toasted Cheese is a daily writing prompt site that publishes prompts on a monthly calendar. The whole month is laid out for y...

Phrays - Word of the Day Writing Prompts

Phrays is a simple site that publishes a new word of the day everyday. Each word is published with its definition and part of speech. Visit...

One Word - Sixty Second Writing Prompts

One Word is a simple writing prompt generator. The way it works is the user clicks "go" on the One Word homepage and they are pr...

New Year's Resolution Generator

So the New Year is here and if you're feeling the pressure to make a resolution, but you just don't know what it should be, try the ...

K-12 Writing Lesson Plans from Expo & Scholastic

Scholastic and Expo have partnered together to create the Expo Writing Resource Center . The Expo Writing Resource Center offers lesson pla...

PicLits - Inspired Picture Writing

PicLits is an interesting website that aims to provide inspiration for writing short stories. PicLits tries to accomplish this goal by pro...