Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Writing Prompts: Images to Give Writers Ideas
Narrative images to encourage writers to write by exploring the themes and details of the art works.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Orientation for Esl Writers
Slideshow presentation introduces ESL writers to how a writing lab works.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: How Does Writer Organize Nonfiction Text?[pdf]
This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Use Evidence to Show How a Writer Supports
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer for students to use when analyzing the evidence that authors use to support a claim. RI.9-10.5 ideas/claims developed. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Autobiographical Incident Essay
This two-page essay provides an example of an autobiographical incident essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Autobiographical Narrative Example
This four-page essay provides an example of an autobiographical narrative. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Why Do Writers Write?
A slide show with nine slides explaining the author's purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Curated OER
Writing Fix: Flash Drafts: What a Writer Needs
Front cover to the book What a Writer Needs by Ralph Fletcher.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Writing Prompts: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Family Stories
These images are intended to give students ideas for writing about their families by exploring the details of the art works.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: A Writer Trimming His Pen
An image of "A Writer Trimming His Pen", created by Jan Ii Ekels in 1784 (Oil on panel, 28 x 24 cm).
BBC
Bbc Arts: Shaking the Spiders Out (A Visual Poem)
An animated poem about the "spiders" that writers sometimes have to face.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Letter Writer Surprised
An image of "The Letter-Writer Surprised", created by Gabriel Metsu, c. 1662 (Oil on wood, 45 x 39 cm).
Curated OER
Writer Alice Walker
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
Curated OER
Writer Zora Neale Hurston, Pictured in Florida in 1935.
NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor interviews Alice Walker about her connection to Zora Neale Hurston. Walker talks about how Hurston inspired her writing, even though the two writers never met. The site also contains audio of Walker reading her...
Curated OER
Writers store.com
This site by MovieBytes lists several contests for scripts held on a monthly basis. Most of the contests involve an entry fee of $20-$55 and are open to anyone.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Writer's Palette
This ivory palette bears both the birth name and the throne name of Tutankhamun.
Curated OER
C Span American Writers 2: Ernest Hemingway
Contains a bibliography of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961 CE), list of works, and links to additional information.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Digital Collections: The Masses
The Masses was a socialist magazine begun in 1911. Under the direction of Max Eastman, the magazine became an advocate of racial equality and women's rights and promoted many writers and artists. It was well known for its political art,...
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ: Shaw, George Bernard:1856 1950
The site from SwissEDUC has a portrait of the writer, as well as audio of Shaw speaking about pacifism and a video of a biography, "A 1930 Newsreel Appearance." Equally important is a the information on "Pygmalion." It provides...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925: George Bernard Shaw
This Nobel Foundation profile of writer George Bernard Shaw is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," and "Other Resources."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Organization
This slideshow lesson discusses the organization of descriptive papers. It reviews descriptive papers, lists the three most common organizational patterns: least to greatest, greatest to least, and chronological. Determining which order...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences
A series of notes and lessons focused on writing thesis statements and topic sentences. The lesson begins with a four-page downloadable PDF containing information about the function and form of a thesis statement as well as how to...
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