• Persuasion Map - an interactive graphic organizer that helps students map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
• Essay Generator - judge for yourself...is this a helpful tool? It certainly is interesting!
• What are they selling? - study the persuasive art of advertising using this interactive resource
• Persuasive Speech Generator - refresh screen for different topic that could be used to develop an essay (or persuasive speech)

• Graphic Organizer collection - GCSD has posted some excellent material students could use to develop their persuasive essay

• Tell It to the Judge - Persuasive Essay that uses the story The Three Little Pig
• Study Guides and Strategies - detailed information on how to develop a persuasive essay (secondary students)
• Good Essay Topics - suggestions for persuasive essay topics

• Online Venn Diagram Generator - design a 3-way or 4-way Venn
• Read*Write*Think Venn Generator - a nice generator for younger students
• Comparison and Contrast Guide - outlines the characteristics of the genre and provides instruction on the methods of organizing, managing ideas, and writing comparison and contrast essays
• Compare & Contrast Map - interactive graphic organizer that helps students organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
  

• Worksheet Generator - develop Venn Diagram worksheets online
• Compare/Contrast Graphic Organizer

• Writing A Comparison/Contrast Essay - posted by The RSCC Online Writing Lab

• Book Report Now! - a colorful, interactive
  crash course for students
• Book Report Generator - students can fill out this simple form online and print it (can not be saved; must be completed in one sitting)
• Book Report Sandwich Station - a colorful online generator that will appeal to students all ages (best suited to younger students)

• abcteach - numerous book report worksheets that are appropriate for younger students

• Book Report Alternatives - neat ideas that
  could serve as an alternate to a book reports
• Book Report Wizard - How to write a book report: plot, setting, genre, characters, themes and more. The Book Report Wizard tells all!
• Spaghetti Book Club - kids can post reports online and read reports written by students across the nation

• Letter Generator - a nice generator for
  younger students from Read*Write*Think
• Business Letter Builder - a basic letter generator that would be appropriate for older students
  

• Parts of a Block Business Letter
• Parts of a Modified Block Business Letter
• Parts of a Sem-Block Business Letter

• Letter Writing Guide - includes information about purpose and elements of a letter and several samples
• Business Letter Lesson Plan - students will
  learn format, tone & organization in writing correspondence
• Australia Post - click on the Letter Writing Fun link

• Biography Maker - an interactive activity that walks students through the process of writing an interesting biography
• Bio-Cube - a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person.
• Timeline Generator

• Introducing Biographies-Getting to Know
  You - an online lesson that includes excellent worksheets
• Third Grade Biography Project - a terrific "wax museum" project posted by Germantown Academy complete with worksheets and photos

• Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation - a lesson plan for 6-8 graders
• Spaghetti Book Club - a place for kids who love to read and talk about books! It is the largest site of book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids.

• Newspaper Clipping Generator - students can create their own clipping by inputting their news story

• Identifying Fact and Opinion Graphic Organizer
• Kid-friendly Stationary - could be used for journaling

• Beginning Reporting - how to be a news reporter
• Write a News Story Lesson Plan - students work with an interactive Amelia Earhart timeline to develop a news story

• Interactive Comic Creator Online - students can use this tool to practice adding narration prior to developing their personal narrative
• Interactive Graphic Organizer - develop your story prior to writing using this organizer

• Constructing the Interactive Narrative Worksheet (graphic organizers)

• Writing Prompts for Personal Narratives
• Exploring and Sharing Family Stories

• Acrostic Poem Generator - a fun online activity for students
• Diamante Poems Made Easy - an online form
• Diamante Poems -online tool that helps students learn about and write diamante poems

• Enchanted Learning Acrostic Poem worksheets

• Poetry Resources for the Classroom - a gateway of poetry links
• The Limerick Special Interest Group - all about limericks

• Writing Instructions Tutorial and Practice from BBC - interactive activities, including a game, that will help students learn how to write instructions

• Graphic Organizers for Print - includes sequence organizers

• How to Write Good - this lengthy, but informative article includes numerous tips that will help secondary writers become better technical writer
• How-To Writing: Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose - a lesson plan for 3-5 graders

• ReadWriteThink Notetaker - useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information, choosing bullets, Roman numerals, or letters
• Interactive Tutorial on Choosing appropriate information for your research paper - interactive site developed by Read*Write*Think
• Writing Workshop - learn how to develop a research paper with Scholastic

• Research Organizer - this is a .pdf file found at Cheryl Sygmon's site. Visit Cheryl's site for additional resources and a description of this graphic organizer.

• Online Writing Lab
• Teenspace - step by step directions

• Story Map - designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
• Literary Elements Map - Students can map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution as they prewrite for their own fiction or as analysis of a text by another author (secondary students).
• The Plot Diagram - an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.
• Storymaker - an interactive and fun way to write a story online

• Artist Storyboard - this is a .pdf file found at Cheryl Sygmon's site. Visit Cheryl's site for additional resources and a description of this graphic organizer.

• Children's Story Writing Guide

• Diarist.net - a comprehensive starting-point for both writers and readers of online journal (preview before recommending to older students)

• School Express - a journal worksheet for every day of the year that incorporates writing prompts for younger students (they could also be used with older students, but the worksheets have a lot of clipart)
• Printable Writing Border Paper, Patterns For Teachers - 100+ printables that could be used for journaling

• Journal Writing as a Teaching Technique to Promote Reflection - an abstract posted on the Journal of Athletic Training site
• Journal For You - an entire website devoted to journaling
• Steve Pavlina.com - benefits of journaling

Note: Some people may feel that blogs and wikis could be included in this section. I have chosen to look at journaling as a private writing tool that can be used to help a student develop writing skills that focus on self-learning, reflection, and revelation. I strongly believe that wikis and blogs hold a place in education, but prefer to use them as collaborative tools.