Six Roadblocks to Writing Instruction—and How to Find Alternative Routes by Brian Kissel is shared in  Educational Leadership, an ASCD publication.  If we can give our students more freedom to choose topics and find their writing style, they will thrive in the classroom—and beyond.

The Paramedic Method is a seven step editing protocol originally created for professional writers. It can be used by anyone looking to eliminate redundancies, eliminate passive voice, and generally, make sentences more persuasive and easier to read. Shared by the Purdue Online Writing Lab. 

This guide provides resources and step-by-step directions for using the Idea, Citation, Explanation, Defense of Thesis (ICED) strategy, which allows students to strengthen body paragraphs through various elaboration exercises.  (Click on the ICED: Key to Elaboration handout for use with students.) By readwritethink.org

A quick guide to writing a character analysis by Teaching College English.

A basic guide to help students analyze the purpose and audience of their writing. By Read Write Think.

Tips for how to craft effective descriptions in your writing.  By Writing World.

This handout discusses common logical fallacies one may encounter in their own writing or the writing of others, and provides definitions, examples, and tips on avoiding these fallacies.  Shared by the Writing Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Tips on how to detect and improve the tone in your writing. Shared by Writer's Digest.

Tips on how to find and hone your voice as a writer. Shared by simply writing.

Author Nadia Kalman shares these tips to help students write dialogue in a narrative. The video is hosted by YouTube.

Curriculum Pathways digital tools are designed to supplement instruction and help students work toward a deep understanding of academic concepts across subject areas and grade levels. The Writing Navigator is comprised of four different elements, each guides students through a different phase of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, and publishing. This tool is best suited for students in 6-12th grade. Teachers will need to create an account but the product is free to use. 

The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina offers a collection of online resources for writers and educators including information on writing papers, citations, style and "sentence level concerns" like grammar and punctuation. Also find examples of and tips for a variety of writing tasks such as scientific research, application essays, poetry explications, and speeches.  The "related videos" (at the bottom) are recommended and could be used for in-class direct instruction or flipped instruction videos. All resources can be accessed freely without a login. 

Noredink.com shares a system to help students improve their grammar during writing assignments. In the free version of this program, teachers can assign students practice exercises on a variety of topics, such as active and passive voice, articles, embedding quotations and commonly confused words. Teachers will need to create an account to use the free materials. All grade levels.

Quill.org provides tools that enable students to build writing, grammar, and proofreading skills. Teachers will need to create an account to use the site, but the lessons are free. Quill also links to Google Classrooms.