Updated on March 8, 2017
These free websites and apps help students of all grade levels with a variety of writing and composition skills. They range from guides for essay writing, biographies, research papers, and writing prompts to comic creators and online book and story writing tools. Some of the sites include lesson planning resources for teachers.
From site: This interactive guide provides an introduction to the basic characteristics and resources that are typically used when students compose comparison and contrast essays. The Comparison and Contrast Guide includes an overview, definitions and examples. The Organizing a Paper…
From site: This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline for one of three types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole, similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point. Links to the Comparison and Contrast Guide give students the chance to get definitions and look at…
From site: Whether its The Princess and the Rutabaga or Big Blue Riding Hood, invite your students to turn familiar fairy tales upside down and inside out and to have fun. This interactive tool gives students a choice of…
From site: The Stapleless Book is designed to allow users to create with ease an eight-page book simply by folding and cutting. No tape or staples are required. Students and teachers alike can use the stapleless book for taking notes…
From Site: The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts,…
From site: The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by…