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Provides information about the 6 + 1 Trait Writing plan (CMCSS's District Writing Model), separated by grade level. Also includes trait definitions, FAQ, lesson plans, and more.
 * [|6 + 1 Trait Writing]**

Contains downloadable pdf format posters for all the traits.
 * [|6 + 1 Traits Posters]**

**[|Book Adventure - Free Online Book Quizzes] ** Here's a great (and free!) alternative to Accelerated Reader. You will need to set up a free account for each student. I suggest that they use their school user name and password; if they forget, we can easily figure it out.

Studies show that //daily exposure// to language skills -- including skills of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar -- will build students' skills and increase test scores. Organized by month of the year, each paragraph contains ten built-in errors of basic spelling, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization. Each one also shares some very timely information too -- high-interest information that will build cultural literacy as it improves language skills.
 * [|Everyday Edits - Education World]**

An excellent writing help that was originally developed by dyslexics for their fellow dyslexics, this website can be helpful to everyone. It helps students with grammar and punctuation skills. Online service is free, but slightly limited--only 600 characters.
 * [|I Ghot It Right]**

You'll find a multitude of lessons from the Canadian Media Awareness Network. Search by subject, grade level, or simply browse the entire collection. Advertising All Around Us is a good place to begin raising students' consciousness about looking critically at brand culture. There are excellent games such as Privacy Playground, CyberSense and Nonsense, and Allies and Aliens, plus much more.
 * [|Media Awareness Network]**

National Grammar Day began in 2008 and is celebrated every March 4th. Grammar Girl provides tips for speaking and writing with correct grammar, a skill that is extremely important. There are lots of advertisements to help sponsor the site, but the tips and funny stories, quick videos, and daily grammar calendar are fabulous!
 * [|National Grammar Day]**

You'll find entire literature units for teaching popular novels.
 * [|Reading Teacher - CyberGuides]**

Contains links for lesson plans, students activities, literature, grammar, mythology, poetry, journalism, and just for fun. There is also a Writer's Feature that is changed periodically, as well as a section on 6 + 1 Trait Writing.
 * [|Web English Teacher] **

Sections include Writing Prompts, Writing Lessons, Writing Across the Curriculum, Reading in the Content Area, Classroom Tools, as well as information about 6 + 1 Trait Writing.
 * [|Writing Fix] **

You can watch a short 8 minute video "What You Do Matters" about the museum and the holocaust. There are pictures, survivors' family members first-hand account and explanations of how Hitler's Nazis and WWII came about. Click on Education and then For Students, and there's a lot more.
 * FOR THE 8th GRADE ANNE FRANK UNIT: **
 * [|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum] **

Sponsored by the University of South Florida's Center for Instructional Technology, this link has short videos of actual survivors telling their personal stories.
 * [|Holocaust Survivors' Videos]**

This project was done by 8th grade students at Whitwell Middle School here in Tennessee. There is a short video on the website about how the project came to be and how it affected the students. Very moving!
 * [|The Paper Clip Project - Whitwell Middle School]**

Here you'll find original photos of the war in the Pacific theatre, including Pearl Harbor.
 * [|History Place: WWII in the Pacific]**