Resource+Libraries

=Resources =

Books and other material to help with adding writing accross the curiculum can be found in the following locations at school:

= **Computer Lab** =
 * =**Software**=
 * **Inspiration/Kidspiration** - Great electronic graphic organizer for organizing thoughts and gathering research before writing
 * **Type to Learn** 4 - Typing program used in the 3-6th grade, but available to other grades if needed
 * Student Writing Center-
 * =Books=
 * __**Write All About It**__ - Grades 3-5 - Activities for the Writing Process including how to make a bound book
 * __**Grade 3 Writing**__ - Main Idea, Sequence, Proof Reading, Fact and Opinion and more
 * __**Writing Success**__ - Grades 3-4 - Activities to help with persuasive, informative, narrative and expressive writing. Includes simple rubrics
 * __**Complete Writing Lessons for the Middle Grades**__ - Activities and Worksheets to help with the writing process
 * __**Great Genre Writing Lessons**__ - Focused step by step lessons, graphic organizers and rubrics that guide students through each stage of the writing process
 * __**350 Fabulous Writing Prompts**__ - Grades 4-8 - Thought provoking springboards for creative, expository and journal writing
 * __**50 Quick and Easy PowerPoint Ideas**__ - Grades 3-12 - many cross curricular activities
 * __**Writing Stories**__ - Grades 4-8 - Tools and techniques for writing a story
 * __**Teaching with the Internet K-12 - New Literacy's for New Times**__ - resources and lessons for integrating technology into all content areas - here is a link to the books website - http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/fourth/one.html
 * __**Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children**__ - college textbook including methods on teaching the writing process
 * __**Student Writing Center**__ - This is actually the book that came with a program, but it has wonderful ideas that integrate writing into multiple content areas
 * __**MLA Handbook**__ - guidelines for writing MLA citations
 * __**Pocket Guide to APA Style**__ - guidelines for writing APA citations
 * __**Brainstorming and Lightning Bolts:Thinking Skills for the 21st Century**__ - activities on how to go from brainstorming to idea mapping to writing
 * __**Brainstorming and Lightning Bolts:Thinking Skills for the 21st Century**__ - activities on how to go from brainstorming to idea mapping to writing

=Library =
 * Books

==**Classrooms ** ==
 * PreK-A
 * PreK-B
 * K-A
 * K-B
 * K-C
 * Grade 1
 * Grade 2
 * Grade 3
 * **__Nonfiction Read & Write Booklets__** (Grades 2-3) Animals & Habitats
 * **__Writing Paragraphs__** (Grade 3) Includes practice for Standardized Tests
 * __**Learning to Write Paragraphs**__ (Grades 3-5)
 * __**Jump into Journals**__ (Grades 2-4) Contains Math, Science, Social Studies, Health and General Topic Prompts
 * **__Paragraph Writing__** (Grades 2-4)
 * **__Writing Curriculum Week-by-Week Lessons__** (Grade 2)
 * __**Writing Paragraphs**__ (Grades 3-4) Contains "How To" instructions
 * __**Instant Poetry Frames Around the Year**__ (Grades 1-3)
 * Grade 4
 * Grade 5
 * Grade 6
 * Grade 7
 * Grade 8