Let's Build A Snowman
Using both fiction and nonfiction books on the same topic can boost students' understanding of the topic and enjoyment for reading. In this lesson, students use both types of texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive during the winter.

Report Writing in the Primary Grades
This lesson plan describes a highly guided group technique for report writing.

Bread and Jam for Frances
This unit is designed to supplement the teaching of Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban and consists of five Internet activities.

Authentic Writing Experiences and Math Problem Solving Using Shopping Lists
This activity allows students to use their emerging writing skills to write their own shopping lists. Students are highly motivated to work within a budget, use their problem-solving skills to create shopping lists, and buy their favorite treats at the class store.

Earth Bags
Students will write and illustrate ideas for helping our environment on paper grocery bags that will be distributed at the local grocery store.
 

Kids Are Authors: Kids Are Authors is an annual competition open to Grades K–8 and is designed to encourage students to use their reading, writing, and artistic skills to create their own books.

Caillou Activities: Print out this picture book and make up your own story

Writing Prompts: These sites have a variety of writing prompts to help students develop stories. Includes some handouts and PowerPoint presentations.

Writing Assessment Tools: These sites include rubrics, scoring guides, and checklists for assessing student writing. Ideas for peer editing and student self-evaluation are included. Several of these assessment tools can be used as they are while others can be constructed online.
 

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