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Printable Writing Templates

Learning to write can be frustrating for a lot of students. I’ve made it easier by designing 13 new writing templates that combine penmanship lines with fun pictures that can be colored in.

The new writing templates cover a number of interests. For animal-lovers, there’s a frog and a dragon template. Sports fans will like the helmet, jersey, soccer ball and bowling templates. There’s even a tooth template for dentist waiting rooms or for schoolchildren journaling about lost teeth.

Teachers will like the new holiday writing templates that can be used as essay assignments. There’s one for discussing Labor Day activities and another for writing about the purpose of Columbus Day. There’s even a superhero template where students can create their own powers and then draw a picture of their costume design.

You can download and print all 119 writing templates as a free PDF file, or opt for the $20 collection, which can be invaluable when you need a quick and quiet activity for a rowdy classroom.

Printable Letter Templates

Wording is important when you’re writing a letter, especially if you’re trying to carefully word a request. If you’re looking for financial relief or forgiveness, I have new hardship letters at LetterofHardship.net and apology letters at ApologyLetters.net. If you simply want to thank someone, there are plenty of new thank you letters at ThankYouLetter.ws.

There are 65 forms at LetterofHardship.net that help make sure that you include the right information and the right phrasing for every occasion. The 14 new hardship letters can be used for any situation where you might need financial forgiveness or leniency for mortgages, medical bills, tuition or debt. Each template addresses a different reason for hardship including illness, incarceration, gambling, pregnancy and military deployment.

If you’re looking for clemency instead of a loan, head over to ApologyLetters.net and check out the 111 letters for misbehavior, social slights, workplace issues and personal apologies. The 16 new forms can help atone for troublesome or delinquent behavior at work, school or in the community. These include apologies for graffiti, interruptions, tardiness, sexual harassment and violent behavior. I advise using these as launch points to give you ideas for more personal, specific apologies.

Finally, there are 19 new thank you letters at ThankYouLetter.ws that celebrate civic duty, volunteer work and community contributions. These include thank you forms for blood drive helpers, campaign supporters, mentors, lunch hosts and participants at career fairs and seminars. More than 140 other thank you letters are available at the site for weddings, gifts, birthdays and more.

You can download each of these forms as an editable DOC and customize it to your preference in a word processor before printing or emailing it. Some letters are fill-in-the-blank, while others have information displayed in bold that can be replaced with your own sentiment.

Printable CD and DVD Labels

Great news for people who want to get organized! I’ve created a category of printable CD and DVD labels that are perfect for identifying any backups you create of your digital files.

All of the 30 printable labels are easy to identify, categorize and file because each one has different fun, colorful patterns and pictures. Keep apart your music, videos, work, pictures and documents with discs decorated with filing cabinets, paper clips, folders, pencils and hard drives.

When printing out these labels, choose one of three formatting styles: 1200, 5075 or 5625. You can also pick to print them as DOCs or PDFs before attaching them to your disc.

Canning labels, address labels and labels decorated with babies, animals and holiday decorations are all offered at PrintableLabels.net. You can get all of them (more than 150) in one quick, easy collection for only $9.

Instant Worksheets

With the school year off to a good start, I’ve made sure to add a lot of new printable worksheets to my very first charter membership site, InstantWorksheets.net. The site currently now offers 260 completely free worksheets, but it also has hundreds more that are only available to premium members, who pay a small, monthly fee for unlimited access.

The new teacher worksheets are great for elementary and middle school students and cover a whole range of subjects. Shapes, the five senses, favorite foods, reading, science and even asteroid comprehension really show the diversity that’s available to educators and their students.

The worksheets at InstantWorksheets.net are broken down by category for subjects like the alphabet, ESL, motor skills, addition and more. All the templates are helpful to supplement lesson plans or serve as stand-alone activities for busy classrooms. Premium members have access to all of the worksheets as well as the worksheet generator, which can be used to create math worksheets for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Set the generator for whole numbers or fractions, choose the number of questions per page, and use this great tool as an activity creator or a study device. It provides unlimited use, and the price for worksheets membership is only $4 a month, a charter rate.

5774 Jewish Calendars

There are even more options for Hebrew calendars thanks to the new additions to PrintableJewishCalendar.com. I’m happy to report that the 5774 calendars are up and ready to download and print for free.

Next year, 5774 (or 2014 on the civil calendar), is a Shanah Me’uberet, or a year with 13 months instead of 12. All 13 monthly calendars are available to download and print individually as a free PDF. There is one option available for a monthly calendar with the Jewish holidays written in red and another Western Jewish calendars option that features the equivalent date from the Gregorian calendar on the bottom of each date box. You can also use the custom calendar generator to pick your own configuration.

The calendars at PrintableJewishCalendar.com range from next year back to the year 5770 (or 2010). All of the days and months are written in Hebrew and each calendar shows when Jewish holidays begin as well as the day they are officially observed. Make long-term plans and compare dates for next year with these great new additions.

New Teacher Printables

The back-to-school shopping sprees might be over, but TeachersPrintables.net has dozens of new forms, charts, and more to help teachers, students, and homeschooling parents. There’s everything from grading sheets for the first batch of homework or desk tags for assigning seats. Or, download and print some free instructional charts or worksheets for the day. TeachersPrintables.net has 449 classroom printables to choose from.

TeachersPrintables.net just added 33 new classroom printables including templates for math, music, typing, and more. There are blank number lines, pie charts and Venn diagrams divided up in various increments that can be filled in to illustrate any chart or problem. Music students and typists can practice fingering with a printable piano and blank computer keyboard. There are also printable worksheets for number progressions and fraction problems.

Everything at TeachersPrintables.net is free to download and print in PDF or customizable DOC (Microsoft Word) format. For the busy teacher (or school!) that wants to have all the printables on-hand, there’s the single-classroom-license printables collection for only $27 and the school-wide license for $67.

While teachers may get a lot of use out of TeachersPrintables.net, students can head over to PrintableFlashCards.net to help them study. There are over 225 printable flash cards with preexisting information for studying subjects such as science, math and literature. However, what’s especially useful about the site is the flash card generator that lets users print out flash cards with their own unique questions in sets of six or four per page.

Teachers and parents of young students learning to write will also enjoy WritingTemplates.net, which offers 119 printable writing templates for kids set against cute, fun pictures that can double as coloring pages. They’re free to print and great for practicing handwriting skills.

Printable Cover Letters and Character References

Sometimes, in order be given a chance, get your foot in the door, or win an opportunity, you have to really sell your skills, qualifications and merits. Whether you’re doing it yourself or asking others for help, I’ve got something for you. CharacterReferenceLetters.com and CoverLetterExamples.net respectively have 12 new character reference letters and 12 new cover letters for anyone looking to get ahead.

The new character references are perfect guidelines for anyone who is asked to speak on behalf of someone’s academic, moral, or professional behavior. Use them as a template or a reference when helping recommend someone for a green card, roommate, award or bank account. CharacterReferenceLetters.com also has more than 90 templates for court, school and daycare purposes that are free to download and print.

CoverLetterExamples.net features dozens of cover letters for sales, grants, schools and jobs. The 12 new additions are geared toward individuals who want to catch a hiring manager’s eye right off the bat. This includes matching the cover letter to the job posting explicitly and cold calling the company as well. There are also samples for driven individuals applying for an award, submitting a story, or seeking a role in the National Honor Society. Each cover letter can be downloaded and edited as a DOC file for free.

Sample Toasts

Not everyone is good at public speaking. If you’ve ever had to make a speech at a wedding, party, anniversary or festival, you know that it can be difficult to put the right words together in order to be funny, inspirational or moving. Fortunately, you don’t have to go through all the effort of coming up with your own thoughts, because I have 29 new ideas for great example toasts at ExampleToasts.com.

The majority of the new toasts is dedicated to abstract concepts and encourages fellow drinkers to raise a glass to adventure, love, happiness, age or prosperity. These general speeches are short and feature pithy sayings or funny jokes that can be used by anyone.

Other sample speeches are detailed and specific, such as the toast from the father of the bride at a wedding, or the anniversary speech for a couple’s golden wedding anniversary. These are better used as reference for form, structure and language rather than word-for-word copies.

I also put up several articles on how to write a speech, including one on the protocol for wedding toasts and another concerning toasts in multiple languages.

There are nearly 80 toasts at ExampleToasts.com, and all of them can be downloaded, edited and printed for free as a DOC file.

Free Printable Planners

It’s the end of summer and the school year will be starting soon, if it hasn’t already. Fortunately, I’ve got 47 new printable planners at PrintablePlanners.net.

I decided this time to make a new category devoted entirely to student planners. Decorated in gold and maroon lettering, each template contributes to a comprehensive academic binder. While they’re great for any student, these are specifically designed for high school graduates and college students. There are basic essay and test trackers, daily schedules and calendars, but there are also university applications, budgets and course schedules.

A lot of the new additions are task planners, which cover a variety of scheduling and planning needs. There are lesson plans decorated with colorful triangle patterns that are perfect for teachers preparing a syllabus. There are also colorful menu planners and project timers.

I have more than 350 planners at PrintablePlanners.net, and they are all available in the size that works best for you. The smallest size is the Mini-Organizer and is only 2.75 x 5”, while the largest, the Executive-Organizer, is a full-sized page. They all have guides for a three-hole punch and are available for free as a printable PDF or for $4 as a DOC file that can be edited in a word processor.

If you’d like to try different sizes or simply have all the templates available on-hand, I recommend getting every single template in one big planner collection.

Free Writing Prompts

I’ve got good news for teachers of all ages: there are 25 new expository and creative writing prompts up at FreeWritingPrompts.net. If you ever need a quick writing assignment or a fun way to spark inspiration, try a few!

Some of the new prompts are meant specifically for civics, government or social studies classes. They are geared toward raising awareness of current events at different age levels and incorporate newspapers and online news sources. Other, more creative prompts for students include questions about summer vacations and traveling, which can be a great way to transition from the summer holidays into the school year.

Finally, there are some fun, creative prompts for writers at any stage, student or otherwise. These include prompts for holidays like Earth Day or Labor Day, memoir questions for those writing an autobiography, and theater prompts for budding playwrights.

There are nearly 90 writing prompts for persuasive, narrative, instructional and conditional essays at FreeWritingPrompts.net. They are all free to download, edit and print as a DOC file. Each set of questions is categorized by its appropriateness for Elementary, Middle, High School and College students.