Back before the 4th of July, I blogged on a new site that would be available this Fall, one I thought would be a good free resource for students, teachers and homeschooling parents. TeacherWrite, the creation of Nancy Ramsey, an award winning middle school English teacher, promised to eventually offer an entire school year of writing assignments on the site. Last summer Ms. Ramsey started her site with the idea of sharing lesson plans and enrichment activities she designed for her real world classroom with on-line teachers and learners.
I remember Nancy's disclaimer on the site warning that building this resource would be a slow process, because she would be using real lessons created and taught in real time. So I thought I would check back in with Nancy at www.teacherwrite.com this week and see how her site is developing. Only a few weeks into the school year, I was impressed to find a significant amount of useful material available at TeacherWrite. The site is easy to navigate and the menu bar takes parents or teachers to the areas of Bell Work, Reading Activities, Writing Activities, Writing Process, Enrichment Activities and several other choices.
Nancy has posted six goals under Mission Statement, the first of which is "help parents teach their children grammar and writing skills." The grade levels of the lessons are middle school; 5th through 7th grades. I can see however the possibility of the materials being used with some younger children and also having a value to adult learners who need to learn basic writing skills.
This is a valuable free resource that will continue to develop. Congratulations Nancy.
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