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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With
In this lesson, young scholars will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Dialogue Adventures
In this instructional activity students will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes
In this lesson students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What's Your Fifth Element?
In this lesson students will write persuasively in regards to a 21st century object.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Between Repeated Lines
In this instructional activity young scholars will write a poem about someone they love after they have brainstormed an original idea.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Ejercicios De Ortografia
These are interactive resources that include spelling exercises of various types.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 6: Who and Whom
Test your understanding of the words "who" and "whom" by choosing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 7: Who and Whom
Test your understanding of the words "who" and "whom" by typing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 6: Using Lay and Lie Correctly
Read about the proper usage of lay and lie and then practice by correctly completing twenty sentences. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Writing Concisely
This page compares wordy writing to a art gallery cluttered with a mixture of great works and poor attempts making it hard to see the great works. Remove the clutter, write concisely so the reader gets the point of the paper. It offers...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness
This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site
This interactive home page provides improvement module links in the areas of grammar, citations, and writing. The University of Sydney's The Write Site provides online support to help students improve their writing skills.
Other
Glossary: Grammatical Terms
This site provides an alphabetical list of common grammatical words.
Towson University
Towson University: Commonly Confused Words: Weather / Whether
This site focuses on the commonly confused words weather and whether including definitions and examples with explanations. It also offers a link to practice exercises.
Other
Business Writing Center: 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words
A quiz, designed for business writers, that tests knowledge of words which are frequently misspelled. It includes questions about two words which are spelled differently in British spelling than in American spelling.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.
Other
Suny: Conventions of Writing Papers About Literature
A professor's excellent explanation of how to write a professional sounding essay. Covers all aspects of an essay, and detailed examples give information on exactly how to write the essay.
Quia
Quia: Phonological Awareness
This proofreading exercise asks students to read sentences and using the drop-down menu to select the correct choice for the blank. These sentences cover capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and usage.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Strunk's the Elements of Style
Bartleby.com's online version of William Strunk, Jr.'s classic reference book, "The Elements of Style."
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Spelling Practice
"Spelling Practice" offers links to five spelling lessons: long vowel spellings, perplexing words, spelling the "seed" sound, the final "y", and the prefix "ad-". Each lesson provides links to practice activities.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Grade 7: Practice Proofreading
In this exercise, students are to read a paragraph about Emily Dickinson, find the 5 misspelled words, and type them correctly in the boxes provided. Java is required.