About Great Source iwrite
Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents.
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For Educators — Quick access to powerful writing lessons and assessments
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For Students — Step-by-step support for completing writing assignments
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For Parents — Tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner
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Here you'll find…
Templates, Tutorials, and Graphic Organizers
A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills – from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs. Online access to these resources makes them convenient to support a variety of learning styles and instructional settings including
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Whole-class and small-group instruction
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Computer lab time
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At-home homework support.
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Grammar Handbook
The Grammar Handbook is the go-to place for fixing common grammatical errors your writing. Excerpted from the Write Source Interactive CD-ROM series, this collection of interactive lessons provides tips for improving punctuation , spelling, parts of speech, and more.
Videos
The videos on writing a research report provide a quick how-to overview for getting started and completing research papers. These videos take you through one student's experience of writing for a research report - a great example of a successful project.
Contest
The Great Source iwrite writing contest is a great way for young writers to practice their craft and win great resources for their language arts classrooms. Winning entries will be published on the Web site.
Want more? Tell us your idea for a feature or activity that will help writers like you. For classroom materials and professional development to complement Great Source iwrite, visit Greatsource.com.
