IRA Effective Literacy Website #7: Write About

Figure 1: Writeabout.com

           Write About (https://www.writeabout.com/) promotes and encourages writers between grades 1-12 and at different skill levels. It is more than just writing prompts to help get students started, ultimately Write About aims to help them publish their work. Their vision is to create meaningful writing experiences for one million students and their mission is to promote more student writing using an engaging environment.

The website offers lessons, creative creative/journal writing prompts, writing assignments, projects, personalized feedback, and data monitoring. Writing communities are a benefit of the site, connecting writing around the globe. Another feature is highly interesting content in categories including personal narratives, fiction, opinion, literature response, poetry, and expository to engage students. Struggling and advanced writers will be really interested to write on topics like:

• ·       Pick an invention that already exists and “upgrade” it so it’s more appropriate for the future. 
• ·       What are some sneaky ways to get people to eat more vegetables?
• ·       Write about a day at school…from the perspective of the janitor.
• ·       Write a poem or story based on a dream you recently had.

Figure 2:Writing ideas https://www.writeabout.com/ideas/

Teachers can sign up for a free trial which offers each student up to five posts. Participants will have access to all content; however teachers will not have less support including access to data. Quotes for paid classroom/school accounts are available after sending them some information. 

Figure 3:https://www.writeabout.com/quote/