This is a fabulous site, home of the Monster Exchange Project. Schools and students from around the world participate together to practice communication and writing skills. This site offers many opportunities for students to use their writing skills in a context that they will find enjoyable. It offers a chance to write to Toona Cat, ask him questions, read writing by other children, enter contests, and write stories and poems. It is definitely easy for students to navigate, no matter how narrow their knowledge of computers.
Site also includes links to writing contests and samples of childrens writing.
This can really enrich the reading program if you follow their book lists. This page contains a multitude of resources on one page. Library in the Sky offers links to additional information as well as a list of lesson plans for the internet, creative writing, limericks, ESL lessons, poems, paragraph writing, descriptive writing, and persuasive paragraphs. There are materials for all grades K-12. These lessons suit a wide variety of teaching and learning styles and would be useful for almost anyone teaching in an elementary classroom.