writingfix: home of interactive writing prompts and 6 trait resources for
teachers
writingfix: home of interactive writing prompts and 6 trait resources for
teachers
quick site
navigation:
for all writers:
for teachers and students:
our "under construction" projects:
daily writing prompts
right-brained writing prompts
picture book prompts
comparison/contrast resources
your daily
journal
left-brained writing prompts
chapter book prompts
adapting great lessons, k - 12
your writer's notebook
writingfix
for kids
literature prompts
constructed response
games for writers
our 6-trait homepage
writing across the
curriculum
art &
writing lessons
poetic
prompts
nevada's writing test
reading in the content areas
off-site
resources for teachers
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welcome to writingfix
writingfix: where getting your
daily writing "fix" is more important than fixing your writing.
write every day!
hello writers, teachers, and students. have
you been inspired to do any writing today?
what are interactive
writing prompts? / 6 traits
/ the w.a.c. and
r.i.c.a. guides / why is this website
free?
three on-line prompts
that just got better:
the 6 writing traits
at writingfix:
november 2007's
mini-lesson of the month:
silly animal problems
inspired by
dav pilkey's dog breath,
this prompt challenges writers to plan and then write an organized
piece of writing about an animal with an original problem. students will deliberately plan a
story that is detailed and well-paced.
are you a
teacher?
find out how to join the nnwp's
mini-lesson of the month group
here.
the 6-trait homepage
six
free lessons from the nnwp's new 6-traits guide, plus popular and new
prompts.
response & revision
post-its
let these simple, effective tools bring better
6-trait
vocabulary to your classroom.
idea
development homepage
free resources and lessons to help developing
writers understand the trait of idea development.
hey teachers and writers! writingfix is
purposely organized around the 6 traits of writing. the 6-trait model
is an analytic way of thinking about writing skills. it helps give
developing writers a vocabulary so they can identify and talk about their
personal strengths as writers. it also helps them develop a vocabulary
for talking about where their writing might benefit from some further
rethinking and revision. the writingfix
website is dedicated to giving students and teachers a better ability to use
6-trait language in the classroom.
organization
homepage
free resources and lessons to help developing
writers understand the trait of organization.
voice
homepage
free resources and lessons to help developing
writers understand the trait of voice.
word choice
homepage
free resources and lessons to help developing
writers understand the trait of word choice.
sentence
fluency homepage
free resources and lessons to help developing
writers understand the trait of sentence fluency.
conventions
homepage
free resources and lessons to help developing
writers understand the trait of conventions.
our
most recently revised chapter book prompt uses:
pedro's journal by pam conrad
a
fantastic 6-trait print resource from this website's sponsor:
the northern nevada
writing project
the nnwp's 196-page going deep
with 6 trait language guide is ready for purchase, and it is the best
twenty-dollars you'll ever spend as a teacher. over 2500 educators already have this wonderful
resource in hand.
this publication is a workbook for teachers
interested in using 6-trait language more effectively with their students.
each of the 6 traits is individually unpacked and examined, and specific
trait-based lessons and resources (from the classrooms of dozens of 1st
through 10th grade teachers) are shared. discussion questions are
strategically placed throughout the guide to make this a perfect workbook
for groups of teachers to examine together and unpack together. click
here for
more information on how to order this resource.
our
newest literature prompt uses:
a
tale of two cities
by charles dickens
new to writingfix? find out how classroom teachers are using this
website by clicking here.
already using
writingfix with students? share your ideas to earn a free
resource. click here
for info.
what do you mean
by interactive writing prompts?
writingfix has interactive lessons for building stronger writing
skills in writers of any age
writingfix, we believe, is the
only site of its kind. it was designed by writers, teachers, and
students...to spark the imaginations of
writers, teachers and students...of all ages.
we wanted this website to inspire writers. most on-line sites
that we explored
contained long (and often uninteresting) lists of topics a person could write
about. instead of boring topic-lists to inspire writing, writingfix
created unique interactive word games that put the writer in control,
and keep him/her engaged. to see an example of what we mean by an
interactive writing prompt from an interactive word game, scroll down to
the blue box below: our instant plot creator. click the three buttons below
the write screens to be given an interactive plot idea. keep clicking
the buttons until a story that you might actually write is inspired by the
random choices that come up. if someone was sitting at a computer next
to you clicking away as well, that person would most-likely end up with
three different choices and a completely different idea for a story in
his/her head. this site contains over 250 of these interactive
writing prompts for writers.
the trick is: can you stop playing the
interactive games at some point and start writing?
our interactive plot creator
below is just one of over 250 on-line writing prompts. our prompts are
currently categorized into these nine categories:
right-brained prompts
left-brained prompts
writingfix for kids
daily journal
prompts
6-trait prompts
poetry prompts
picture book
prompts
chapter book
prompts
classics of lit
prompts
because this site was created by teachers, each interactive writing prompt
was set-up to be a complete writing lesson that can be used with developing
writers. each prompt page contains pretty explicit instructions on how
to introduce and teach a writing concept to developing writers. each
on-line prompt comes with student/writer instructions. each prompt
comes with an interactive word game. many of the on-line prompts are
currently being revised by members of the northern nevada writing project's
technology team so that they also contain student worksheets and revision
tools that can be printed and used in the classroom. as the lessons become
fully revised with these teaching tools, they are becoming what we are
calling 5-star lessons.
we hope you're inspired enough by our
interactive prompts to
write more, or to teach writing more..
still not sure what we mean by
interactive?
try our interactive instant plot creator
every
plot
should have a
setting,
a
character, and a
conflict. press
the three buttons below until you get a setting, character,
and conflict that inspires a story in your brain. then,
write the story!
setting
character
conflict
working with students with this interactive writing
prompt? try using our
pre-writing worksheet and our
rough-draft worksheet?
the 2005 writing across the curriculum guide
(wac) & the 2006 reading in the content areas guide (rica)
guides & on-line resources created by 4th - 12th grade teachers, for 4th
- 12th grade teachers!
both available for purchase now!
the northern nevada writing
project proudly sponsors the writingfix website. this website
is but one many great resources the nnwp provides for teachers and
writers.
over 2000 teachers in northern nevada are now
using the writing across the curriculum guide that the nnwp first
published in 2005. over 500 of these guides have been sold to
teachers in the united states and canada. many of the guide's
resources can be found on-line at writingfix's
writing across the curriculum
homepage.
the 140-page writing across the curriculum guide
is divided into five modules that are designed to promote teacher discussions.
each module examines a different technique to incorporate writing across
the curriculum in content areas other than english. each module
encourages discussion among upper elementary & secondary teachers by beginning and ending with
thoughtful discussion questions.
new to 2006 is the northern nevada writing
project's 134-page reading in the content areas guide. this
thoughtful resource contains five sections that encourage teachers to try new
strategies that help their students comprehend and write about what they
are reading in both literature and expository texts. the examples,
lessons, and resources come from upper elementary and secondary
classrooms. each module examines a different strategy that will
increase reading comprehension from students. coming in october
2006, many of the guide's resources will available for free to writingfix users at our new
reading in the content areas
homepage.
like the w.a.c. guide, the nnwp's r.i.c.a.
guide is designed as a workbook for individual teachers.
thoughtful discussion questions begin and end each module, so groups of
teachers unpacking the guide together will find plenty to talk about.
information on ordering both guides can be found on-line by clicking
here.
why are these on-line
resources free?
good ideas keep us growing.
technology grants keep us free.
our promise to
you: no advertisements! no subscription fees to use this site!
we acquire grant monies to grow.
the website
you're using right now is a professional development project,
created by teachers from the northern
nevada writing project
for teachers around the globe. like
john dewey, the nnwp believes that educators learn best by doing, adapting,
and revising good ideas. this website is a place where any educator or
writer can find good ideas to try, to adapt, and to try again. we've
been providing these free resources since 2001; in fact, writingfix has an
interesting history that you can read about in detail by clicking
here.
this website also
provides a different kind of professional development for the teachers who
create for the site. the northern nevada writing project hosts
in-service
courses and
summer
institutes that require good teachers to
design new lessons and resources that can be posted here. as these
teachers create, they teach what they've built to both their students and to
other teachers. they make discoveries about what makes the perfect
on-line resource. these resource-creators have become our
northern nevada writing project's technology team,
and they will profess to learning just as much as the teachers who enroll in
their courses and workshops.
at present, our workshops are only offered in
northern nevada, but we are actively looking for new grants and donations
that will help us bring these workshops to teachers across the nation...and
across the globe.
two recent
technology grants that keep this site growing and free:
the 2005-2006
sbc technology grant
the 2006-2007
at & t technology grant
©2007 writingfix
all rights reserved.
with the
exception of the book thumbnails, all materials found on this webpage
are copyrighted by writingfix and the northern nevada writing project.
educators have permission to print and share these materials with their
students. all others need to request permission from this site's
sponsor: the northern nevada writing project.
visit
http://nnwp.org to request permission.
thumbnails
of book covers are included here to encourage users to purchase these
books and support the authors and illustrators who created them.
who created
writingfix? writingfix
began as a professional development project for teachers in
2001. click here to find out the history of this website,
and for a sneak preview of what's being developed.
visit our sponsor:
the northern
nevada
writing project
this website is free thanks to this
organization.
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