Writing Tools


 

Tool

 

URL

 

Comments

 

Jenny Eathers' Writing Fun!

 

http://www.writingfun.com/
K-6 writing templates and interactive color-coded explanations on nine different types of writing.

Microsoft Office Excel Spreadsheet

 

http://www.microsoft.com/Education/CreateTimeline.aspx
How-to on creating time lines on an Excel Spreadsheet

Nicenet 

 

http://www.nicenet.org  user friendly 

Scribd 

 

www. Scribd.com

easy to use to share documents 
 About.com

http://esl.about.com/advancedwriting/Advanced_Level_Writing_in_English.htm 

 

Resources/formats for advanced writing tasks

Web Quest to Blog

 

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/necc2004/bolgs-and-wikis.htm 
Web quests to research a persuasive position that is then written for a blog

Google docs

 

http://docs.google.com 
For document sharing and saving.
Constructing the Paragraph

http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=constructing-the-paragraph

By Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith