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Homeschooler's Writing Club - Valentine's Day Poetry
Writing is a topic that seems difficult for homeschooling families to accomplish and often gets neglected. Join the Writing Club for Homeschoolers.

Homeschooler's Writing Club - Writing about Historical Figures
Writing is a topic that seems difficult for homeschooling families to accomplish and often gets neglected. Join the Writing Club for Homeschoolers.

Homeschooler's Writing Club - Writing About Inventors
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!

Mighty Writers! Create-a-Book Kits
Mighty Writers! Create-a-Book Kits are exciting new thematic kits that motivate children to write. They are sure to inspire even the most reluctant of writers. The personalized books kids create will be treasured for years to come!

Make Your Own Diary Kits
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.

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'Keeping in Touch' Kits
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.

Summer Writing Ideas
Fun writing ideas for the summer and anytime. 

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

ABC's of the Writing Process
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.

Kidsnews.com
Kidnews.com is a free news and writing service for students and teachers from around the globe and has published thousands of young authors from every continent (except Antartica)! Anyone may submit whether a review, journalism piece, short story, poem, sports critique, real life accounts, opinions, or advice to fellow kids.

Listen & Write
The Listen and Write Website aims to make creative writing fun and accessible for children. Children write their own poems and can submit finished poems for posting in the site Showcase. There are structured writing activities, audio poems that progress in difficulty and useful writing tips.

Newspaper Writing 101
These are tips for beginners on writing newspaper articles. These were written for participants in the Detroit Free Press high school apprenticeships.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
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 Program
Paragraph a Week is a yearly writing program designed to give your students practice with writing various types of paragraphs.

Project Based Learning Checklists
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.

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

ThinkDeeper.com
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.

Write 101
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 - Internet Writing Classes For Homeschool 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.

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

Writing Activities
Writing activities for grades 3 and up from Zaner-Boser.

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

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

Writing Checklists
Proofreading checklists to edit and proofread your written work for grades 3 and up.

Writing Guide
A thorough guide to writing from sentences to research papers.

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