Writing Support
ESL Gold Writing Includes leveled exercises
Biography Maker this site will guide you through the process of writing an engaging biography
Basic Guide to Essay Writing provides a guide models, practice, and tips for expository, narrative, and persuasive essays.
Writing Fix Interactive writing prompts, lessons, traits, process, writer’s workshop
Lightning Bug An Interactive site that helps you write a story from beginning to end.
Thesis Builder - Online Persuasive Essay outline builder
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) Terrific writing resources including specific ESL Support
Great Source I Write
Read, Write and Think This site has interactive activities, lesson plans, and much more.
PicLits You can drag and drop a number of interesting picture to create writing prompts.
Academic English Cafe Writing Prompts Galore
Free Bibliography Generators
Easy Bib
Citation Machine
Carmun
Bibme
Ottobib
Bibiomatic
Word Cloud Makers
Wordle Use Wordle if you want something easy
Many eyes Use many eyes if you want to create clouds with colors and statistical data that you can explore
Tagxedo Use Taxedo if you want to make shapes and have much more control over your word cloud
Word it Out Similar to Wordle but with more color choices. Text tends to only go in one direction.
Tagul Also just like Wordle but this creates tag clouds that link to Google searches of every word
Tag Crowd Use this application if you want to see word frequency or have control over what words appear.
Flip Text This application will flip your text upside down.
Story Book Makers
Storybird Write and illustrate your own story books.
StoryJumper You can create your own children's books on this site too.
Mind Mapping and Graphic Organizers
Webspiration Like Inspiration, a brainstorming graphic organizer tool, free, online and allows for collaboration.
Popplet very easy to use graphic organizer maker
LucidChart Drag and Drop, Free education accounts.
Spiceynodes Allows for sound files in the organizer
Drop Mind
Online and Desktop Publishing
Issuu Publishes your writing into a free cool looking flipbook.
Scribd Same here, also freeFree Online Publishing – Digital Publishing – Yudu Freedom
Teen Ink publishes art and writing of teens and tweens
Simple Booklet Easy Booklet maker that also lets you publish
Online Collaborative Writing
(Google Apps for Education is great for this too but in the absence of that try these excellent tools)
TitanPad For the older students
Primary Pad for the younger students
Blogging and Back Channel Tools
(There are many out there but these are the best for education and class management from my experience)
Today's Meet Set up a back channel chat room for a day, week or month for free.
KidBlog.org Create accounts for your students, very easy to set up, maintain and manage
Edmodo A secure web 2.0 social learning site teachers can set up for their classes for free
For other tools to integrate ESL instruction and technology please visit BlackEducation Teacher Tools and BlackEducation Technology Pages.
Biography Maker this site will guide you through the process of writing an engaging biography
Basic Guide to Essay Writing provides a guide models, practice, and tips for expository, narrative, and persuasive essays.
Writing Fix Interactive writing prompts, lessons, traits, process, writer’s workshop
Lightning Bug An Interactive site that helps you write a story from beginning to end.
Thesis Builder - Online Persuasive Essay outline builder
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) Terrific writing resources including specific ESL Support
Great Source I Write
Read, Write and Think This site has interactive activities, lesson plans, and much more.
PicLits You can drag and drop a number of interesting picture to create writing prompts.
Academic English Cafe Writing Prompts Galore
Free Bibliography Generators
Easy Bib
Citation Machine
Carmun
Bibme
Ottobib
Bibiomatic
Word Cloud Makers
Wordle Use Wordle if you want something easy
Many eyes Use many eyes if you want to create clouds with colors and statistical data that you can explore
Tagxedo Use Taxedo if you want to make shapes and have much more control over your word cloud
Word it Out Similar to Wordle but with more color choices. Text tends to only go in one direction.
Tagul Also just like Wordle but this creates tag clouds that link to Google searches of every word
Tag Crowd Use this application if you want to see word frequency or have control over what words appear.
Flip Text This application will flip your text upside down.
Story Book Makers
Storybird Write and illustrate your own story books.
StoryJumper You can create your own children's books on this site too.
Mind Mapping and Graphic Organizers
Webspiration Like Inspiration, a brainstorming graphic organizer tool, free, online and allows for collaboration.
Popplet very easy to use graphic organizer maker
LucidChart Drag and Drop, Free education accounts.
Spiceynodes Allows for sound files in the organizer
Drop Mind
Online and Desktop Publishing
Issuu Publishes your writing into a free cool looking flipbook.
Scribd Same here, also freeFree Online Publishing – Digital Publishing – Yudu Freedom
Teen Ink publishes art and writing of teens and tweens
Simple Booklet Easy Booklet maker that also lets you publish
Online Collaborative Writing
(Google Apps for Education is great for this too but in the absence of that try these excellent tools)
TitanPad For the older students
Primary Pad for the younger students
Blogging and Back Channel Tools
(There are many out there but these are the best for education and class management from my experience)
Today's Meet Set up a back channel chat room for a day, week or month for free.
KidBlog.org Create accounts for your students, very easy to set up, maintain and manage
Edmodo A secure web 2.0 social learning site teachers can set up for their classes for free
For other tools to integrate ESL instruction and technology please visit BlackEducation Teacher Tools and BlackEducation Technology Pages.