Interactive Graphic Organizers for Planning your Writing

There are some wonderful online resources you can use to help plan your writing.  Before you start writing, try one of these!
Letter writing
Business Letters  
Poetry
Acrostic Poetry
Haiku Poem Writing
Diamante Poem 
Mythmaking
Learn about and create your own myth
Fiction Writing
Circle Plot Diagram
Hero's Journey
Fractured Fairy Tales
Comic Creator
Nonfiction Writing
Essay Writing
Compare/Contrast 
Multigenre Mapper
Persuasion Map
General Tools
Webbing Tool
Story Map

Resources for Informational Writing Topics

Still looking for a topic?  Try here:
30 Informational Writing Prompts
Informational Writing Topics
Text Sets from The Reading and Writing Project

Here are some resources for specific informational topics:

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient Americas
Middle Ages
Alternate Energy Sources
Solar System 
Bullying
Child Labor 
Environment 
Abandoned Pets 
Child Soldiers
Censorship
Green Energy
Japanese Internement
Recycling 
Christopher Columbus-who really discovered America?
Women's Rights 
Global Warming

Citing Sources

Watch Moby explain what a Works Cited Page is and how to create one!