• Interactive Webbing Tool - a free-form graphic organizer that provides a quick way for students to trace out options and rearrange connections in three formats, cluster webs, hierarchy webs and cause and effect. Students can drag the circle or box shapes representing their ideas to arrange any layout and relationship that they want.
• Interactive Timeline - an online graphic organizer for timelines.
• Concept Map Generator - here you can create various thinking maps 
• INTERACTIVE: Venn Diagram (Venn Diagram Rubric)
• INTERACTIVE: K-W-L Creator (Sample & Blank KWL Chart)
• Collection of Writing Graphic Organizers
• 5th Grade Benchmark Papers
• Student Writing Models K-12 - Write Source
• Word Cloud - a graphical representation of whatever you write. Try it.
• Wordle - Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
  

• MINI-LESSON: Descriptive Writing - Show, Don't Tell! PDF
• Scholastic Descriptive Writing Workshop

• INTERACTIVE: Interactive Story Starter Machine - Can come up with an idea for a story? Try this interactive!
• HANDOUT: Story Map PDF** (Mr. Rojas)
• Picture/Caption Timeline Flow Map Handout - has room for picture and caption, great for cutting out and pasting onto construction paper as a flow map 
• INTERACTIVE: Interactive Story Map (pdf handout) - an interactive online graphic organizer for stories
• INTERACTIVE: Interactive Literary Elements Map - an interactive online graphic organizer for mapping the literary elements of a story
• INTERACTIVE: The Hero's Journey Interactive Map - The hero's journey is an ancient story pattern that can be found in texts from thousands of years ago or in newly released Hollywood blockbusters. This interactive online graphic organizer will provide students with background on the hero's journey and give them a chance to explore several of the journey's key elements. Students can use the tool to record examples from a hero's journey they have read or viewed or to plan out a hero's journey of their own.
• Interactive Character Trading Cards Map (planning sheet)
• Character Scrapbook Interactive

• INTERACTIVE: Fractured Fairy Tales Interactive - a tool that encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales by changing elements of one of three classic fairy tales

• Short Story Interactive Model
• Scholastic Short Fiction Writing Workshop
• How to Write a Story
• Story Writing Tips for Kids
• Story Writing Tips
• RUBRIC: Short Story (Rojas)

• INTERACTIVE: Mystery Cube Interactive - an interactive for summarizing key elements in a mystery story
• Mystery Writing: Writing with Writers (Scholastic)

• RESOURCES: Understanding, Analyzing and Writing Myths (webpage by Mr. Rojas - includes myth videos)
• Scholastic Myth Writing Workshop
• Myth Brain Storming Machine
• PDF: Myth Writing Directions & Example
• RUBRIC: Myth Picture Book (Rojas)
• RUBRIC: Short Story (Rojas)

~ News Story

• INTERACTIVE: Interactive Comic Creator - an interactive online tool to help create a printable comic

• INTERACTIVE: Interactive Outline Notetaker - an interactive web tool to help you take notes in outline format, ready for printing.
• Thesis Builder - Online tools for thesis statements and outlines

Biography Writing 

• Writing an A+ Biography (includes model, graphic organizer and checklist)
• Scholastic Biography Writer's Workshop
• Fact Monster How to Write a Biography
• Conducting an Interview
• INTERACTIVE: Interactive Bio Cube - an interactive summarizing graphic organizer that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.

Essay Writing

~ Compare & Contrast Essay

~ Descriptive Essay

Research Report

• HANDOUT: How to Write a Successful Research Report
• Scholastic Research Report Writing Workshop
• Fact Monster How to Write a Research Report
• Write a Bibliography
• Conducting an Interview
• How to Give an Oral Report

Speech Writing

How-to Writing

Persuasive