Website Review 3/24

My website review was www.writingfix.com. I got this website from Patrick Manyak's EDCI 5760 class. I chose this website to give me some ideas for writing with my Kindergartners. It is an excellent writing resource for all grade levels.
The first section is entitled writing prompts. It has daily writing prompts, writing prompts for kids, right brain writing prompts, and left brain writing prompts. I really liked this section because it had writing for emergent writers and different brain writing prompts.
The second section has writing lessons. There are picture book lessons, chapter book lessons, literature inspired lessons, poetry lessons, and i-pod and lyric inspired lessons. Popular culture texts could be merged into these types of lessons.
The 6 trait lessons arena explains an overview of the 6 traits and detailed lessons for idea development, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and Nevada's writing exam. These lessons have good ideas for teaching all of the six traits. The Nevada writing exam could be used as a resource for preparing for the PAWS exam in Wyoming.
Writing processes is addressed next. It shows prewriting, drafting, response, revision, editing, publishing, and evaluation. This is for upper elementary or secondary students.
Writing across the curriculum has a history fix, science fix, number fix, comparison and contrast, exit tickets, note taking, and RAFT writing assignments. This can be applied to every content area.
Reading in the content areas has constructed response, vocabulary activities, engagement strategies, summarizing, text patterns, and collaborative reading. This was my favorite link. I received many ideas on how to teach these skills to students. I will be teaching some of these skills to our summer school students in the resource center this summer.
Classroom tools are explored with daily writing prompts, a writer's notebook, creative journaling, writer's workshop, revision post its, family writing projects, mini-lesson of the month, art and writing, author studies, off-site links for teachers and word games for writers. This section was full of writing ideas. I would recommend it to every teacher!