K-12 Classroom Practices:  Publishing on the Web

Hypertext technology offers publishing possibilities beyond the traditional print-based publishing used in classrooms, as explored in these ReadWriteThink sample lessons.  The Teacher Resource Collection Literacies in the Ways of the Web provides additional resources on using Internet technologies in your classroom.

Weaving the Threads:  Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=36

Nancy Patterson, chair of Assembly on Computers in English (ACE), offers this sample lesson to illustrate how meaningful research, poetry, and Web publishing can be the focal point for an alternative to the traditional research paper.

Weaving the Multigenre Web

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=279

Pat Schulze offers an alternative to the traditional methods of analyzing the elements of a novel.  In this lesson, students repesent their understandings in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Web sites.

Choose Your Own Adventure:  A Hypertext Writing Experience

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=128

The ever popular "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories are back as a hypertext experience. While the students may start writing in groups, the final format is really up to the individual student.  Publishing on the Web makes collaboration and organization of the activity that much easier.

Story Character Homepage

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=50

Looking at a character's development over the course of a book or series has its own set of challenges. Add to it the opportunity to present the infomation in a Web format, and you have the makings of valuable conversations for middle school or high school students.

Exploring Literature Through Letter Writing Groups

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=397

This lesson asks students to discuss literature through a series of letter exchanges. It can be used as a one-time assignment in conjunction with any work of literature or it can be used throughout the year with the students discussing, and even making connections among, a number of literary works.  Exchanged letters can take the form of handwritten letters, typed letters, electronic documents, e-mail, online discussion posts, and even Weblog posts.