Well if I haven’t posted enough links for writing here are some more. LOL I just keep finding them in my favorites.  These cover mainly essays, research papers, and few other things.  Some are at college level, but I’m sure you can alter it to fit your needs.  Besides you’ll be getting them on the right path for college.

Paragraph a week 5^th – 6^th grades

Is a yearly writing program designed to give your child practice writing various types of paragraphs.

http://www.teachersdesk.org/topics/par_week_program.html

Here you’ll find 17 different writing plans.

http://www.teachersdesk.org/writing_plans.html

Writing prompts and journal topics – a zillion ideas

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

The writing center guide to writing an abstract

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/abstract.html

Literary Education Online:  Writing Abstracts – from what is an abstract on through writing a good abstract, they also provide an example of an abstract

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/bizwrite/abstracts.html

Dartmouth Writing program has 3 sections – student’s section, a teacher’s section, and a writing tutor’s section.  The student section contains these main topics: writing the academic paper, writing in the humanities, writing in the social science, writing in the sciences, writing a thesis, special writers, special writing tasks.  .  Give them a head start on learning to write for college.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/about.shtml

A short guide to writing in college

http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/

Advice on Academic writing

http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html

Biography Maker – I thought this site was pretty cool.  It takes the student through each step on how to write a good biography.  It was very easy to understand.

http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm

How to write a book review complete with an example

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/mice/bookreview.html

How to write essays covers the whole kit-n-caboodle even the different kinds of essays

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm

Writing Helper Slideshows – covers journalistic writing, the 5-paragraph essay, the 7-paragraph essay, and writing styles laid bare

http://www.aller-stead.com/martin/pages/frameenglish.htm

Guide to writing a basic essay

http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/

How to write an essay

http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/staff/tom/teaching/howto/essay.htm

Writing Exploratory Essays

http://www.powa.org/explore/index.html

Essay writing center – covers the basics and different types of essays. There is a questionable content photo ad at the top of the page So I would recommend printing off what you need and presenting it to your children that way. 

http://eleaston.com/writing.html#Howto

This site offers some interesting ideas for writing poetry and fiction.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html

How to write a letter by Emily Post

http://www.bartleby.com/95/28.html

A guide to keeping a Reading Journal – I found this to be an interesting idea that I’m hoping will translate into better reading comprehension.

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/puller.html

Writing a research paper

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/genre.html

How to effectively organize a paper and some stages in planning and writing a research paper.

http://members.tripod.com/%7EDuermueller/paperwriting.html

How to write a research paper for high school and college students

http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/

Help your children learn to write well.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Writing/index.html