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Gr8 Sites You Might Find Useful:
  • ABC's of the Writing Process - [ Kids/Teens ] - Tips for each of the five stages of the writing process.
  • Anthony’s Workshop - [ Kids/Teens ] - Offers a tutorial, definitions, and exercises to teach punctuation and the parts of speech.
  • Assorted Ham - [ Kids/Teens ] - Features online story writing activity where young writers can writer their own stories or contribute to existing stories.
  • Center for Writing: Quick Tips - [ Mature Teens ] - A series of suggestions for effective and correct composition. Covers punctuation, style, grammar, plagiarism and specific writing tasks. Each topic can be downloaded as PDF.
  • The Claremont Review Literary Magazine - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Solicits and publishes teen writings; also offers writing tips and a manuscript/mentor service.
  • Diana Hacker: A Writer's Reference, Sixth Edition - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Provides exercises in writing, grammar, and research. Includes language debates, model papers, and research and documentation online. [Requires registration to save scores.]
  • Effective Writing - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Writing guidelines that show you how to make readers understand and feel your thoughts. [PDF]
  • Exploring English - [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Provides tips, tools, and resources to help improve writing skills. Includes why it's important to write well, the parts of speech, types of sentences, punctuation, spelling, and a downloadable file.
  • For Kids: Secrets and Surprises about Writing - [ Kids ] - Children's book author Pamela Jane tells how she gets ideas for writing.
  • Haiku for People - [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Tells what Haiku is, explains how to write it, and gives numerous examples in English.
  • H.W. Fowler: The King's English - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Authoritative text on grammar, syntax, punctuation, writing techniques, and style.
  • Judy Reeves - Writer - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Includes hints, tips and ideas.
  • Kid Quote Greeting Cards - [ Kids ] - Greeting card publisher that holds a semi-annual kid quote contest. Student writers submit quotes that might be used in future greeting cards. Prizes are awarded.
  • Kiddie Thoughts - [ Kids/Teens ] - Offers kids and teens a chance to share their thoughts in the form of stories and poetry.
  • Kids' Place: English - [ Kids/Teens ] - An interactive way of improving written work, with ideas for practice sessions and an explanation of the drafting and revision process.
  • License 2 Write - [ Kids/Teens ] - Teaches students how to structure a paper and improve their proofreading skills.
  • The Magic Key - [ Kids ] - Characters from the Oxford Reading Tree offer games and worksheets about writing, grammar and punctuation.
  • Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales - [ Kids/Teens ] - Resource for learning about and writing in these genres.
  • Paragraph Builder - [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Step-by-step directions for organizing and writing a good paragraph.
  • Paragraph Organizer - [ Kids/Teens ] - Offers paragraph writing help, composition of a paragraph and instructions for writing.
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