Scholastic Story Starters Grade K-6
Scholastic Poetry Idea Engine Grades 3-6 
Scholastic Myth Brainstorming Grade 3-6 
Write your own story. In the Monthly Story section pictures are offered that can be used to create a rebus. Use words from your story to name each picture. The pictures will appear in place of those words, after it has been published.
Teachers: you must submit a request for a password before your class can submit stories.
To Get Started: Click here to skip all the clicks and go right to the page to start. (Cancel the option to download a language pack if prompted.) Teachers can click "Class Entry Form" to request a password. Students can click "Monthly Class Story Form" beside #2 to write their story.
Story prompts given. Can you write about math?
Learn basic story writing skills from Bruce Hale .
Capitalization, spacing, and numbers,
3 levels of difficulty - see what each includes below the buttons. Tip: Click Help to see what each tool does. Click a button for the type of correction needed in the sentence. Move the cursor over the spot needing the change to highlight it, and then click.
Learn how to write from acclaimed authors. Separated into categories such as News, Poetry, Journal Writing, and others. Grades 3 +
- Letter
Generator , Timeline
tool, Diamante
Poem wizard, Acrostic
Poems , Shape
Poems *, Bio
Cube , Flip
Book , Mystery
Cube , and Printing
Press (newspaper, brochure, booklets) Other tools also offered including Venn Diagram tools - create your own lists of words to drag and drop.
Poetry activities including magnetic poetry kits for kids .
Cinquain, haiku, and others. Try the Effective Detective activity also to get an idea of how you could be more descriptive when writing.
Guide to writing poetry.
Cinquain, haiku, limerick, and free verse.
There's even an "I Can't Write a Poem" form!
Randomly generated story prompts.
Print, with or without lines. Baseball Diamond included.
Fill in the blanks to put together a tasty book report.
Read and follow directions, choosing your grade level 2-8.
Found in the Games section.
Use the drop down menu to select the Rhyming Dictionary.
Use the drop down menu to choose from several types of searches such as Find Rhymes, Find Similar Sounding Words, Find Antonymns, etc.
Find it in the Game Station area. Make choices to generate a story. Add your own ending.
Write Me a Story, Kimma's Scrapbook, and more.
Listen and follow directions. Water the plant and watch your story grow.
Excellent history/writing activity British based. Begin by watching the get-started get started tutorial . Another tutorial covers editing .
Help choosing topics and organizing your thoughts.
Click on Activity Sheets for some helpful illustrations and examples.
Formerly Quick Cite - How to Cite by Noodle Tools.com
Under MLA select Web Page, Online Encyclopedia, etc. to generate a citation. Easy-breezy!
Definitions and examples. Links to activities at bottom of page.
Subject-Verb agreement and more. How to create a Works Cited page.
Initial reading seems a bit advanced, but quickly leads to wonderful graphs, explanations, and examples.