Hypertext Writing Experiences
Hypertext can simply be defined as the electronic linking of text. When students are given the opportunity to deliberately link text, they gain understanding that there is more than one way to conceptualize text. This also helps students with the realization that text does not have to be linear. These lessons from ReadWriteThink provide hypertext writing experiences in the classroom.
Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=137
Integrating technology, research, and the language arts, students work collaboratively on this lesson reviewing books and creating hypertext on the Web. Reading, writing, purpose, and audience are synthesized, resulting in a challenging and creative student project.
Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
 http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=128
Working in groups, students will read and analyze Choose Your Own Adventure Stories in text or hypertext format and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and beginning plots for their own adventures. Working in smaller groups and finally individually, students will develop Choose Your Own Adventure Story Web sites.
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.
Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pages for a Class Collection
 http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=328
In this lesson plan, students explore a class inquiry project, collecting Web-based resources that can be used for further study during the course of the class or for more in-depth projects. Students use Internet search engines and Web analysis checklists and questions to find and evaluate online resources then write annotations that explain how and why the items they have found will be valuable to the class.
Story Character Homepage
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=50
A project for literature circles or class novels to develop understanding of a character. In groups students will look at examples of homepages on the Internet, note what elements most contain, and use them as models to create a homepage for their chosen character.
Weaving the Multigenre Web
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=279
Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Web sites. This is a lesson which can be used with either a whole class novel, individual novels, partner books, or small group literature circles.
Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=36
This project engages students in meaningful research using poetry as a focal point. Students identify words and phrases in a poem by a Native American and in the process, learn about Native American culture and history. Students create a Web site using the poem as a "launching" space that takes readers into various explanations of words and phrases.
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