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Diversified Instruction
Teachers need a variety of tools in their toolboxes to address the diversity of learners in their classrooms. The following reviews of technology tools used for writing instruction will help you choose the best tools to meet your students’ needs and to develop instructional strategies.
Assessment
- Rubistar
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Teachers can create various types of rubrics from topic templates. An online tutorial assists in developing, printing, saving, and analyzing developed rubrics.
- Rubrics4Teachers
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K-12 printable subject rubrics
- Teach-nology
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Teach-nology’s resources include rubric generators
General Links
- College @ Home: 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner
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This is a hotlist of a variety of categorized resources.
- Ready, Set, What's Missing? Success through Differentiation & Technology
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A list of links that will serve as starting points and resources to engage all kinds of learners.
- The Access Center: Differentiated Instruction for Writing
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An overview of differentiation and examples of differentiated activities for the writing classroom.
Illustration & Writing
- Co-Writer™
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This helper application provides spelling and grammar assistance to struggling writers. In a special window, the software predicts possible words as each letter is typed. The word is pronounced after pressing the spacebar. Upon completion of a sentence, all of a student’s work is read and then transferred to a pre-selected word processing document. (all grade levels)
- Kid Pix™
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A creative writing and illustration tool for students of all ages, Kid Pix features creative tools along with auditory cues and reinforcement to allow students independent development of illustrated writing assignments and multi-media projects. Visit this link for a technology integration idea.
- Pixie™
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Students can demonstrate their understanding and imagination with engaging tools. They can support their writing with pictures, original illustrations, and audio narration, while addressing their individual learning needs. Visit this link for a technology review.
Information
- Internet Expeditions: Exploring, Using, Adapting, and Creating WebQuests
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Discover how to create your own WebQuest or visit a variety of supportive links on this topic. (all grade levels)
- Naturescapes
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Naturescapes is a web project that provides multilevel, informational readings, resources, and activities related to nature including plants, animals, and habitats.
(all grade levels)
- Online Storybooks
- Visit these hotlists of online storybooks to experience a new way of reading books! (all grade levels)
- WebQuest
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A webquest provides students an inquiry-oriented lesson in which most of the information comes from the web. A webquest offers investigative tasks at different levels of responsibility to gather information for completion of a task. Some type of writing activity is usually included. (all grade levels)
Organization
- Inspiration™
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Students use this software to organize and develop topics for study or writing. At the core of this resource, students can toggle from diagram to an outline view which supports student learning as they map content. (6-12 suggested grade levels)
- Kidspiration™
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This concept mapping software harnesses young writers’ imaginations and allows them to create concept maps, idea maps and webs. The themed-based symbols and speech supports assist young writers’ organization of ideas. The writing side of Kidspiration allows students to develop, reorganize, and expand their writing into publishable works. (K-5 suggested grade levels)
- Printable Graphic Organizers
- Check out these free, online printable graphic organizers. (all grade levels)
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