Collaboratively Create Multimedia Books on Widbook

This month Widbook became a financial supporter of Free Technology for Teachers. I've written about the service before, but as a service...

The Hero's Journey - A Lesson in Writing Myths

The Hero's Journey is an online writing activity produced by Read Write Think. The Hero's Journey is an interactive resource that t...

PicLits - Drag, Drop, and Create a Story

A few years ago I wrote about a neat creative writing site called PicLits . This week I was reminded of PicLits by an email from Jim Paskiew...

An Interactive Lesson on the Elements of a Story

Interactives - Elements of a Story uses the story of Cinderella as a model for learning about the elements of a story. To use this interact...

Story Map - An Interactive Story Planner

Story Map is a free interactive story planning tool from Read Write Think . Story Maps provides four templates for outlining stories. To us...

Collaborative Writing Across Multiple Grade Levels

Last Thursday after my presentation at The Literacy Promise conference I sat in on Brad Wilcox's presentation about inspiring students...

Create Story Cubes With Templates from Read Write Think

Earlier this week I spent some time browsing Read Write Think and came across this lesson plan for creating biography cubes . The biography...

Resources for Celebrating the Birthday of Dr. Seuss

If he was alive today, tomorrow Dr. Seuss would be 108 years old. I loved reading his books when I was a child and I'm sure that many ...

Create Comic Adventures on Comic Master

Comic Master is a free tool designed for students to use to create comics in the "graphic novel style" that is popular with a lot...

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...

Make and Print a Simple Flip Book

Read Write Think provides teachers, particularly reading and writing teachers, with a wealth of information and teaching resources. One neat...

Literacy Heads - Teaching Literacy Through Art

Literacy Head is a weekly e-publication about teaching literacy through the use of art work. Each week Literacy Head publishes lessons for ...

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...