Writing Prompts Designed To Use with Elementary and Intermediate Students

The Teacher'scorner.net has writing prompts designed to use with elementary and intermediate students. Each selection has a good visual (If you choose PDF and print) as well as the prompt. There is a list of links for prompts for each month about halfway down on the page.
Thanks to Andy Weik, CES at Mount School for the website.

SKRBL: Shareable online whiteboard

Did you ever wish you and your students could work online together?

Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. Use the button and the button to switch between freehand drawing, and text mode. skrbl saves and syncs your whiteboard automatically... what could be easierThere are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on the simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page. Register for free give out the url to students and you are set to go.
Check out my skrbl at http://skrbl.com/92241901 add to my board to let me know what you think.

The Writing Teacher: Tips, Techniques and Strategies for Teaching Writing

The goal of this blog is to increase the quality of our students’ writing skills by sharing knowledge among experts and practitioners. The authors plan to share theory, practice, and research through articles, feedback from readers, and a numbers of web events. They will have teachers, writing assessment experts, academics, and others write about what they’ve tried, what works, how to implement ideas, and current theories on the subject of writing. They also plan to include lots of ideas regarding ways to get students writing more, since that’s the surest way to improve writing!

Read • Write • Think.org

Read • Write • Think.org provides educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. This site contains:
· Lessons – that incorporate detailed instructional plans and student ready materials
· Standards- organized around the IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts.
· Web Resources – websites on reading and language arts.
· Student Materials – interactive online activities students can use in class or at home.
· Calendar – daily information on significant literary events with lesson plans, web resources and classroom activities for each event.