8 Great Online Writing Tools For Students

	I'll start this list with the online writing tool that's the most fun. Have you seen the Story Starter Machine on the Scholastic website? It's a fun way for young writers to pick a topic for their journal entry or story writing assignment.
	ETTC's new Instant Poetry Forms are not fancy, but they are fun. Some of them are mostly written and you fill in a word here and there, and for others have you write a little more.
	Writing With Writers is another great resource from Scholastic. Different authors give virtual workshops on subjects like Writing A Book Review, News Writing or Mystery Writing.
	Generate a short, realistic looking newspaper clipping with this Newspaper Clipping Generator. It's always nice to find another way for young writers to present their work.
	Create your own comic strip at Make Beliefs Comix. Add characters, scenes and objects, a background colour, word bubbles, and viola!
	"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide." Create beautiful word cloud art to download and print or share online. Another "out of the box" way to present a subject.
	For older students (high school),

After The Deadline is another spelling and grammar checker. This one is free, but not as fully featured as Grammarly. I use it with most of my blog posts just to make sure there are no glaring mistakes I haven't caught. 
For more inspiration, come visit my Homeschool - English - Language Arts Pinterest Board.


Have fun with your new tools!