Writing and Composition Resources

A good way to encourage the kids to write is to begin a family newsletter. It doesn't have to be very elaborate and all the kids can contribute.

About Me and My Family - story by Timothy. Timothy is my 7 year old grandson. I had him test out the Kidspiration program for me. He loved the program.

Kidspiration is a powerful software that helps students visualize their thoughts and develop well-organized stories and reports.

Writing is a topic that seems difficult for homeschooling families to accomplish and often gets neglected. Join the Writing Club for Homeschoolers. Field Assignment - Capturing and writing about local history.

Welcome to the Homeschooler's Writing Club Clubhouse! You'll find all the information for the Writing Club here: announcements, new projects, existing projects, Writing Club Products available and Student Submissions.

Writing is a topic that seems difficult for homeschooling families to accomplish and often gets neglected. Join the Writing Club for Homeschoolers.

Writing is a topic that seems difficult for homeschooling families to accomplish and often gets neglected. Join the Writing Club for Homeschoolers.

The participants of the 2nd project of the Homeschooler's Writing Club did an excellent job! I was impressed by the creative inventions. I enjoyed reading the papers and learned a lot too!

Keeping a diary, or journal, is an important part of writing and a good way for homeschoolers to get in their daily writing practice. With these creative kits, kids can decorate and personalize their own diaries.

Keeping in touch with friends and relatives is more fun with these kits to create your own cards, stationery, address books and day planner. Letter writing is a great way for homeschoolers to practice their writing skills.

Fun writing ideas for the summer and anytime. 

You can write poetry! Students just like you in high school have used these lessons for several years.

The purpose of this site is to provide a user friendly online resource, for students or teachers, no matter what they are being challenged to write. By clicking on any one of the five steps, prewriting, writing, revising, editing or publishing, you will be taken into a world of ideas to help you along your way.

Paradigm is intended to be useful for all writers, from inexperienced to advanced. To get the most from the website, take time to explore its components. Choose a topic that interests you, read the discussion, do an activity, move to another topic.

Paragraph a Week is a yearly writing program designed to give your students practice with writing various types of paragraphs.

Completing projects can be fun for your students, especially if they know exactly what is needed. To make a project checklist for your students, first choose the grade level for the type of project you want your students to do. You can choose from writing, presentation, multimedia, or science projects.

All new weekly worksheets - use for teaching, reinforcement and review.

The magazine's goal is to encourage students to read and write using critical thinking skills. This is done through publishing short personal essays, book reviews, and poetry written by students. Site by Matt Metzger who was homeschooled through high school.

Free online writing course (I don't think all six lessons are available) or click on archives to find help for writers, parents, and students.

WriteAtHome is an innovative middle and high school writing education program combining 21st Century technology with flesh and blood writing experts to offer challenging and comprehensive composition classes for middle and high school students. This is not a free program, but well worth the investment.

Individualized writing program for homeschool families and students of public education. Fee-based and free services available.

High school writing lessons divided into three main categories: Composition I, Composition II, and English II.

Archives to the weekly Writing Bugs by Education World. Each week is a different topic to write about with a printable form.