Web Sites for Writers

6 + 1 Traits of Writing
The Official web site.

CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper
CRAYON: Create Your Own Newspaper helps students create newspapers using preselected Internet sites. Using the forms provided, students select information they want to appear in their newspapers. Sections include national news, world news, weather, business, technology, entertainment, sports, comics, tabloid information, and WWW news.

KidsNews
KidNews, a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world, provides a great site on which to publish student writing online. Teachers are encourage to submit special student publishing projects, and individual students bay submit news stories, feature stories, reviews, sports stories, creative writing, poetry, or fiction using the online submission form.

Scriptito's Place
Scriptito's Place is for young people ages 7 to 15 who are interested in creative writing for fun. Here you will find information about creative writing contests, a creative writing newsletter, story starters, and tips for creative writers.

The Writers' Workshop: online Resources for Writers
The Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign maintains an online Writing Guide that includes a Grammar Handbook, a Bibliography Styles Handbook, and a Writing Process Handbook.

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