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

Discover writing with Barry Lane several different lesson plans for all grade levels.  He explains and writes in an entertaining way.  I found the lessons easy to understand.  The lessons come with examples also.

http://www.discover-writing.com/archive-index.html

9 commandments to helping your child improve their communication skills.  A former teacher wrote them and they are Internet linked.  It is a very informative and an easy read.

http://www.dramacircle.org/missfoley.htm

This is a lesson on creative thinking you know you have to get those juices flowing before you write.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc28.txt

A lesson on journal writing

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc84.txt

Here is a fun creative writing lesson though you need more than one kid to do it or maybe you could do it with them.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang03.txt

A lesson in descriptive/persuasive writing

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang11.txt

Creative writing lesson

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang16.txt

Integrated vocabulary, creative writing, and listening lesson

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang19.txt

Writing an auto – bio poem

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang24.txt

Writing poetry using a photograph

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang06.txt

A lesson in pre-writing activities

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang12.txt

Knowing ourselves and others through poetry

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang35.txt

The Personal Touch: A lesson in expository writing

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang47.txt

Indexing and writing skills lesson

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang89.txt

Creative writing: writing for fun

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang10.txt

Introduction to American Literature a free writing lesson

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang66.txt

Write? No Way!  Lesson plan

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang80.txt

Writing a story: Parts of a story

http://www.chasesc.com/CHASEWritingaStoryPartsofaStory.pdf

Several different writing forms

http://www.chasesc.com/forms.html#17

Just a ton of lessons on writing.  On the left side you’ll find other categories

http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp?SubjectID=1&SubheadID=4&TopicID=172

98 writing lessons

http://www.homeschoolernetwork.fen.com/tv/tvsearch.php?keywords=writing&sitesearch=1&in=hs_all

Persuasive writing grade 2

http://www.mhschool.com/languagearts/2001/student/LA23/LA23P1S.php3?grade=2&page=LA23P1&pagenum=1

Writing lesson plans

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/language_arts/writing/

A virtual field trip: The better you write the better you communicate

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=18045

I can write part 1 virtual field trip

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=14731

I can write part 2

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=14825

The nuts and bolts of writing – virtual field trip

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=17171

The writing process – virtual field trip

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13270

More writing lesson plans

http://teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi

Here is a collection of sites to help.

http://va.essortment.com/howtoimprovew_rgka.htm

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/123.html

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/genproofed.html

http://members.aol.com/vangarnews/tips.html

http://www.writingfix.com/

http://www.rhymezone.com/