TeacherWrite Online English Usage & Writing Lessons

I know it is not yet the 4Th of July, but I am excited to tell you about a free educational resource that will be available to students and parents starting this fall.

Nancy Ramsay, a veteran classroom teacher is developing a series of online English usage lessons for her web site http://www.teacherwrite.com/. She will be developing and posting original lessons during the school year that she will be using simultaneously in her sixth grade classroom.

Her TeacherWrite materials are meant to be a supplement to the programs children are using at school and at home. The materials will focus on sentence structure and revision along with suggested writing activities.They will build grammar concepts of how sentences work. Lessons will be consecutive and build on each other, so that students will need to use the materials in the order they are presented on the site and remember the concepts for the next lessons. The best age groups for this site are 5th, 6th, and 7th graders.

Nancy is not charging a fee for the use of the materials on her site. She says, "I'm interested in helping parents and children. I am sharing information I wish that I had been taught as a child." I think this will be a great free resource for homeschooling parents of middle school students.

The site will develop slowly throughout the first school year (2009-2010). Ms. Ramsay welcomes parent and student feedback during the development year of this site to help refine the lessons. I will inform you on this blog or on Twitter when Nancy post her first lesson in the Fall. In the meantime, go to her site and get acquainted with Nancy at http://teacherwrite.com/. You can also find her on Twitter.



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