Clicking your Way to Poetry

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/lessons/1832/

Greek Mythology Webquest

http://www.fairfieldschools.org/Rogerludlowe/crogerludlowe03/webquests/mythweb/index.htm

LEAP online practice

http://polyweb.net/etests/

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/css05rtq.asp

http://www.number2.com/exams/vocab/companion/index.cfm?s=0

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/TCAP.htm

EAGLE

https://www.louisianaeagle.org/pma/orca2/diag.htm

Figurative language bomb

http://www.schooltube.com/video/854e0df8d65eef8f3e89/Figurative-Language-Bomb

Ba-da-bing for the time when a writer's moment just isn't enough.

How to ba-da-bing a sentence

Ba-Where are yor feet?

da-What do you see?

bing-What do you think or hear or smell or touch?

Ba-da-bing is a Writer’s Notebook activity created by Gretchen Bernabei.

http://wc2008.wikispaces.com/BaDaBing

Avi's Five Secrets

Five Secrets to Good Writing!

One: Write! It's not writing until it's on the paper. Story telling is a great art, but it is not story writing.

Two: Rewrite! No one-ever--writes anything well the first time. The first draft can not be the last draft. (I rewrite my work fifty-sixty times--or more). Here's a tip: read your first draft, and if you think it's good, you are in trouble. But, if you read it and you see it's not that good, you are in great shape--to get going. The more you rewrite the better your writing will be.

Three: Write for a reader: Maybe you understand what you have written, but the writer's job is to have the reader understand it. Keep in mind: writers don't write writing, they write reading.

Four: Listen. Read your work out loud (pencil in hand) and it will let you hear your own writing. It will almost improve itself.

Five: Read, read, read. Reading is the key to good writing. The more you read, the better the writer you can be. You can NEVER read too much.

http://www.avi-writer.com/five_secrets_to_good_writing