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 * ​Title: Writing Tools and Activities for the Classroom**

**1**. **Introduction** This pathfinder is developed for all teachers using writing in their classrooms. This pathfinder will help teachers, parents, and students find fun activities to improve writing skills. There are many types of writing activities that everyone can use either on the computer or to print out. Some of the activities listed will be writing prompts, story starters, poetry, and much more.

**​** ​**2**. **Key Terms** "writing activities", "poetry ideas", "writing lesson plans", "middle school writing activities", "writing prompts", "story starters"

I started with Google and Webcrawler. "writing activities" got several different websites that I liked. I tried searching specifics like "poetry lesson plans" and "story starters". I used Webcrawler because it was new to me and I wanted to try it out. Boolify was very helpful when I wanted to include other writing activities with AND.
 * 3. Search Strategy **

1. [] These story starters offer three different prompts in each series. They include a writing rubic for each grade level.

2. [] Categorized by grade level, this site has several writing topics that teachers can use in their classroom. It also has student models that teachers could use to compare writing.

3. http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Writing This website gives you a list of lesson plans or activities based on grade level. This site is great for English teachers that would like to incorporate Grammar lessons into writing.

4. http://www.poetryclass.net This poetry site will take the fear out of teaching poetry. It has writing resources, poetry lessons, and poet interviews.

5. http://www.teachersdesk.org/topics/par_week_program.html Select a paragraph a week or a five paragraph essay with this teacher friendly site. Find a years worth of writing activities.

6. [] Brrrrrrrr! It's cold outside! One of my favorite sites for a variety of writing activities. This particular page is for winter writing activities.

7. http://theteacherscorner.net/daily-writing-prompts A great site for teachers! So much stuff! A variety of writing prompts to use.

8. http://uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html WoW! I cannot wait to use this site that I found with Boolify. It has poetry, fiction, and what they call a bag of tricks for teachers to use. I love how this site is set up.

9. http://thewritingsite.org/resources/prompts/poetry.asp Writing genres and tips on different types of writing like descriptive or expository. So many great ideas with poetry too.

10. http://teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/language_arts/poetry This site offers themes, printables, rubrics, worksheets and much much more!

11. http://www.sde.state.ok.us/acctassess/core.html The State Department of Education has many resources for teachers to use in their classroom based on the OCCT.