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\nModern and Classical Poetry\n

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\nA fabulous presentation of poetry awaits your students. This rich, 14-slide PowerPoint presents many excellent ways for your pupils to compose poems. The presentation encourages them to play with words when composing poems, to analyze...\n
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\nReading a Dialect\n

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\nReading a dialect can be difficult; show readers that it can also reveal fascinating details! They read two extracts from Jane Gardam's The Hollow Land, which is written in a British dialect. Readers answer comprehension questions,...\n
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\nAnalyzing Word Use Through Guided Wordle\n

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\nEven though this lesson is just a basic way to review verb usage, it takes a novel approach. First, pupils identify verbs that they use too often in their writing, and then they create a Wordle. Wordle is a website that provides graphic...\n
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\nPart I: Principle of Effective Writing \n

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\nDesigned for higher education, this 151-slide presentation focuses on effective writing techniques, specifically in scientific manuscripts. While the slides contain readable amounts of text (none are text heavy), consider spreading this...\n
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\nNonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing\n

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\nShould primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.\n
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\nGrade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1\n

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\nWord choice can drastically alter the tone of a piece of writing. Ninth graders read Karen Russell's short story \"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves\" and use textual evidence to help them analyze how word choice affects their...\n
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\nGrade 10 ELA Module 1: Unit 1, Lesson 3\n

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\nPoets write love letters, but how often do the objects of their love write back? Compare Christopher Marlowe's \"A Passionate Shepard to His Love\" to Sir Walter Raleigh's response, \"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,\" with an engaging...\n
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\nGrade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 2\n

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\nHow can you read a character's tone? What about a narrator's tone? Analyze Karen Russell's \"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves\" with a instructional activity that focuses on how word choice can change tone and how tone can affect...\n
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\nVincent Van Gogh\n

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\nLiving in someone's shadow would be difficult for anyone, including one of the most talented artists of the modern age. Middle schoolers read an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan...\n
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\nBorrowing Narrative Skills from Mr. Fletcher: Using a \"Prompts in Reverse\" Technique to Inspire Your Writers\n

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\nHelp your class find their writing voices with this lesson which uses the work of Ralph Fletcher to guide a \"Prompt in Reverse\" activity. Using the chapter \"First Pen\" from Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams, learners decipher what they...\n
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\nVaried Word Choice\n

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\nFifth graders examine how to use a variety of word choices when writing. They discuss how using more descriptive words leads to a more varied word choice, watch a teacher-created PowerPoint presentation, and using a Thesaurus replace...\n
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\nIntroduction to Writing Traits and Writing Strategies\n

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\nIntended for an audience of teachers, this presentation lays out the six traits of writing, the writing process, and the teaching process for traits and strategies. If you are trying to understand the writing process more fully, you...\n
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\nDescriptive Prompt: Precise Language\n

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\nIncorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...\n
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\nAvoiding There Are Poster\n

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\nEncourage precise writing and the use of detail by banning there are from student work. You can put up this simple poster, which includes an image of there are crossed out and an example of how to avoid using the forbidden words.\n
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\nUsing Word Referents\n

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\nStudents edit an existing piece of writing focusing of improving word choice. They create lists of words that can be used in place of the main topic and rewrite the piece using the new vocabulary.\n
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\nPersuasive Writing Rubric\n

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\nIn this writing rubric worksheet, learners will self asses persuasive writing. On a one to four scale, students will look for idea, key points, structure, word choice, and voice.\n
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\nIntroducing the 6 Traits to Students\n

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\nPut together an English language arts unit on the six traits of writing with this helpful collection of resources. From fun songs to differentiated writing exercises reinforcing each of the traits, great ideas are provided for...\n
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\nBoogie Woogie with a B: Using Alliteration while Exploring Patriotic Tunes\n

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\nAre you looking for a way to bring writing into your history lesson - or history into your writing lesson? This cross-curricular activity is helpful and fun, no matter what class you're teaching! Using \"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy\" by the...\n
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\nConcise Writing Exercises\n

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\nAre your pupils' essays full of long, wordy sentences? Help them to write more concise sentences with this practice worksheet, which provides twenty long sentences for your young editors to proofread. Use the activity as a homework...\n
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\nWriting\n

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\nFourth graders complete a writing project and tutorial using word processing on a computer. They focus on voice, word choice, details, sentence variety, staying on topic, supporting details and connecting sentences. They edit, save and...\n
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\nWord Choice in Writing\n

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\nSixth graders explore language arts by writing dialogue. In this vocabulary choice instructional activity, 6th graders identify synonyms and the importance of using a thesaurus while writing dialogue in their own original work. Students...\n
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\nComparing Two Stories\n

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\nCompare new and old versions of the classic story Alice in Wonderland in this comprehensive worksheet packet. Learners read an excerpt from the original, answering several analysis questions. They do the same for a more modern...\n
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\nWhen You Reeeaaallly Want to Say Something\n

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\nKids paraphrase an entry from The Elements of Style, and then revise a sentence. They use the Visual Thesaurus and find synonyms for the phrase very pretty, brainstorm a list of intensifiers (as alternatives to really and very),...\n
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\nDead Word Wall Lesson\n

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\nHelp your writers eliminate \"dead words\" (words that are overused) from their writing. This instructional activity includes a SMART board presentation that will guide them through identifying, eliminating, and substituting \"dead words\"...\n
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