Students can map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution as prewriting for their own fiction or as analysis of a text by another author in this secondary-level interactive.

The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!

This interactive tool allows students to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.

The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity.

This tool allows students to create an online K-W-L chart. Saving capability makes it easy for them to start the chart before reading and then return to it to reflect on what they learned.

The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.

The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.

The Mystery Cube helps students identify and summarize story elements in this popular genre. It can be used as a postreading or prewriting activity.

Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.

This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.

This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.

This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.

This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

The Flip-a-Chip activity provides hands-on practice with affixes and roots, and also promotes comprehension through structural analysis and vocabulary in context.