Writing Fun by Jenny Eather

Writing Fun by Jenny Eather is a brilliant creation, hence the reason it's the first site to appear on this blog. Basically, she has created a site to help teachers teach a variety of writing genres. 

The genres she looks at are: Information Report, Poetry, Narrative, Recount, Response, Description, Procedure, Explanation, Persuasion and Discussion. The target age range for most genres looks to be roughly year 2 - year 9. There are a set of sample pieces within each genre to demonstrate to your students what a suitable piece would look like - and what an advanced piece would look like. I also found it useful showing my grade six students what they would have written last year as grade fives, this helped motivate them to progress their writing a level.

Each of the examples has a writing organiser which can be switched off/on as desired. It allows you to point out the sections of the piece and what should be contained in each section. There is the option to write a draft online yourself. There is also the opportunity to print out templates of the writing organisers.

An unbelievable resource for absolutely no cost. Gotta love that!