Teen Writers

Writing
Writing Careers: The Business Behind Becoming an Author
 https://www.zenbusiness.com/info/writing-careers/

WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary
for poetry and songwriting
http://www.writeexpress.com/online2.html

When Teens Write
Everything an aspiring writer needs: copyrighting services, writing tips, message boards, and more!
http://www.teenwriters.net/

MAKING TRACKS
Become a composer! Make a real piece of music right here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/studio.shtml

QUICK MUSE
Watchwriting unfold on this website, this site shows revisions and writingin saved archives.  Famous poets write on a given topic and you canwatch the writing evolve.
http://www.quickmuse.com/

Teen Ink
Enter Teen Ink’s monthly poetry contest.
http://teenink.com/Contests/PoetryC.html

IPL Teenspace
A+ research & writing
http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/

Virtual Classroom Glossary
The virtual classroom glossary of literary terms.
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/vclass/terms.htm

RhymeZone
Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
Type in a word and find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more
http://www.rhymezone.com

Write4Kids.com
ispacked with articles, interactive tools and cool freebies...all about the art of writing children's books.  You'll find page after page of advice found nowhere else online or off, and you'll learn about the successful author's secret weapon --
http://www.write4kids.com/

Scholastic Books Website
Writing with writers online workshops.
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml

PUSH
Dedicated to new authors and new voices. These writers tell it like itreally is. No preaching. No false endings. No stereotypes orcontrivance. Just an honest dose of reality. These books are funny,observant, heartbreaking, and heart stopping. Just like life
http://www.thisispush.com/

The Journalist's Toolbox
Online resources for reports and editors.
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/toolbox/

Help Teens get smart about money with... Sense $ Dollars a hip, energetic
financial literacy Web site that speaks to middle and high school kids in
their own language.  Games and activities to help kids learn about earning,
spending, saving, and investing, credit cards, budgets and lots more.
http://senseanddollars.thinkport.org/

Vocabulary University
Free word puzzles and other vocabulary enrichment tools build word skills at
this site.  Interactive puzzles, fill in the blank games and more.
http://www.vocabulary.com/

The Goodhue County Youth Services Coalition
Established to provide assistance to all youth-serving organizations and agencies in Goodhue County.  This assistance is intended to promote coordination between youth programming and youth services being offered in the county, and to maximize and enhance all youth resources for the benefit of all Goodhue County families.
http://www.goodhue-ysc.org/

THE ALBANY POETRY WORKSHOP
Submit poetry with questions and receive critique.
http://www.sonic.net/poetry/albany/

Teen Zone
Use the resources provided on this page to improve your writing skills ...
Take the ... WRiTe iT! Write! Become a Teen Author; Writing Help
http://www.ngpl.ca/teenzone/teenwrite.html

SIMON SAYS
Simon and Schuster publishers does this great teen web site.
http://www.simonsays.com/content/index.cfm?sid=33

NO FLYING NO TIGHTS
the graphic novel review site for teens
http://www.noflyingnotights.com/

Word Search maker
http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/worksheets/schoolwordsearch3.cfm

Book talks
Find that next new book to read.  Varies in ages from two to teen!
http://www.mackinbooktalk.com/chooseProgram.aspx

Know your Lexile reading level and you can find books at or above your level that you chose using your interests.
http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex=5&tabid=67

Booklist-100,000's of online book reviews.
http://www.booklistonline.com/

Wordle
Is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The
clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the
source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and
color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share
with your friends.
http://www.wordle.net/


Thatsnotcool.com is attempting to raise awareness about digital dating abuse and stop it before it gets worse. Sponsored and co-created by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, the Office on Violence Against Women and the Ad Council, the site is designed to address new and complicated problems between teens who are dating or hooking up problems like constant and controlling texting, pressuring for nude pictures, and breaking into some one's e-mail or social networking page.
http://www.thatsnotcool.com