This site gives you a teacher's perspective on journal writing. It looks at how effective journal writing can be for your students and more.

Encourage students to write in their journals with this extensive selection of journal topics.

In this lesson plan, an interactive link included to help generate ideas for stories. A button is clicked and a topic is given. In a writer's notebook or journal, each student will use the topic given and develop it. [Requires Adobe...

In this lesson, students will create a school survival guide that follows the model of Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar. This survival guide will serve as a "how to" instructional manual for other incoming freshman students...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains numerous journal topics that could be used for many subject areas. It is best suited for middle-high school level.

As part of a revision and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents information on personal writing with six key features listed. The information is included as part of a brief series on the autobiography.

What interesting and unusual items might you write a Lost & Found Ad for? Devote a page in your journal or writer's notebook to write several unusual Lost & Found Ads this year. Use the lost and found writing prompt generator to...

Scroll to the heading "Getting Started" to find several prewriting links. Topics include "Where to Start a Paper," "Keeping a Pre-writing journal," and "Exploring Ideas Through Cubing."

Students improve skills in all subjects and connect with other students while learning about another country. The students began by researching our country. The students chose which topic they wanted to present in our video. During our...