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\nPutting It All Together: Revision\n

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\nUse the revision process to polish your writing. Writers prepare works for job portfolios that include cover letters, job applications, resumes, and letters of recommendation. Prepare them for the future!\n
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\nAn Overview of the THEA Writing Test\n

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\nPrepare your class for the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) or any other upcoming writing test (such as the SAT) with this presentation. Complete with instructions on the composition and rubric of the test, as well as sample...\n
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\nWriting About Literature: What Is Happiness?\n

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\nJack London's heart for adventure has come to define the spirit of America and its frontier. Selected passages from the foreword The Cruise of the Snark take eighth graders through London's construction and voyage of his ship before...\n
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\nDoes Word Choice Affect the Quality of a Piece of Writing?\n

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\nStudents discuss the importance of word choice in writing. In groups, they rank a list of words from one extreme to the other. After viewing an example, students apply their knowledge of word choice by writing a descriptive paragraph of...\n
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\nWhittling Out Haiku\n

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\nInspired by magazine photos, your young writers hone word choices to create a meaningful haiku. Charged with brainstorming 100 words associated with a photo of their choosing, they whittle their list to the top 10%, make three sentences...\n
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\nWriting with Strong Verbs\n

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\nStudents use strong verbs in their writing. In this verbs in writing lesson, students locate the verbs in their writing, then identify the verbs that are weak and make revisions.\n
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\nAnalyzing Poems from Inside Out and Back Again to Develop Criteria for an Effective Poem\n

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\nScholars analyze a model poem to help guide their poetry writing. They use Think-Pair-Share to discuss word choice and meaning in \"Papaya Tree\" and \"Wet and Crying.\" To finish, they use their discussions to collect evidence on what makes...\n
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\nGrade 10 ELA Module 3: Unit 1, Lesson 3\n

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\nChoose your words wisely. Scholars examine word choice in an excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Learners work in pairs and groups to discuss how the author's choice of words creates a deeper connection between the reader...\n
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\nGrade 11 ELA Module 1: Unit 1, Lesson 1\n

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\nWatch your tone! Scholars take a close look at Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess. After listening to the poem, they work together to determine the impact of word choice and mood of the introduction. They then work independently on a...\n
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\nPractice Book: The Boy Who Saved Baseball\n

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\nAn array of reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary activities are at your fingertips with a language arts practice packet. Second, third, and fourth graders work on various skills using reading passages and word banks,...\n
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\nGrade 11 ELA Module 1: Unit 2, Lesson 11\n

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\nWhat is Hamlet's attitude towards life and death in Shakespeare's Hamlet? Scholars continue reading the play to answer the question, paying particular attention to Hamlet's most famous soliloquy. By holding a discussion and completing...\n
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\nGrade 11 ELA Module 1: Unit 2, Lesson 13\n

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\nWhat impact does word choice have on character development? Using the resource, scholars read Act 3.1 from Shakespeare's Hamlet, focusing on the development of Ophelia's character. They also complete a Quick Write to analyze the meaning...\n
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\nGrade 11 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 21\n

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\nIs there power in persuasion? After reading paragraphs six and seven of Booker T. Washington's \"Atlanta Compromise\" speech, learners look at how Washington uses rhetoric and carefully planned word choice to add to the persuasiveness of...\n
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\nGrade 10 ELA Module 4: Unit 1, Lesson 1\n

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\nScholars evaluate E.B. White's tone in his narrative. Lessons use turn-and-talk strategies to discuss details of a personal narrative essay, respond to guided questions, and work in pairs to analyze word choice. Learners demonstrate...\n
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\nA Nice Story\n

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\nExplore word choice in writing. Your class listens to a short story entitled \"A Nice Day\" (included) and discusses how the story could be improved. Pupils replace the word nice throughout the story with various synonyms, then reread the...\n
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\nVivid Verbs\n

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\nSpice up your writing! Your amateur writers will benefit from concentrating on understanding and improving verb use in writing. An introductory activity addresses weak verbs. A second exercise helps them see the importance of strong...\n
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\nEnd of Unit Assessment, Part 1: On-Demand Essay “What Makes A Hurricane A Natural Disaster?”\n

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\nIt's time to refine writing and word choice. Learners work on Part 1 of their end of unit assessment by creating an essay titled What Makes a Hurricane a Natural Disaster? They use glossaries and graphic organizers from previous...\n
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\nChanging Seasons\n

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\nExplore expository writing and using precise language in this descriptive paragraph writing activity. Learners brainstorm prior knowledge about the changing seasons in Ohio. They describe seasonal items, view seasonal pictures from...\n
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\nReliving History through Slave Narratives\n

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\nHelpful for an American literature or history unit, this lesson prompts middle schoolers to examine slavery in the United States. They read slave narratives that were part of the Federal Writers' Project and then conduct their own...\n
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\nThe Six Traits in Plain Language\n

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\nIf your rockin' writers use Six-Trait Writing, you'll definitely want to include these displays around your classroom throughout the year. Each trait (e.g. voice, word choice, organization, ideas, sentence fluency, conventions) is...\n
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\nThe Sound of…Poetry!\n

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\nScritch, scratch, scritch. It's the sound of pupils writing poetry! Focus on sensory language and onomatopoeia with a writing lesson. After listening to some sounds, learners examine a couple of poems that include sound words and then...\n
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\nFast Fact-Finding\n

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\nEver wonder why the sky changes color so often? Readers examine an informational excerpt from John Farndon's How the Earth Works. They underline key points as they read and then answer five response questions. Prompts review main...\n
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\nOrder of Adjectives: Fill in the Blank\n

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\nWould you rather have a big shiny diamond ring or a diamond shiny big ring? Word choice and the order of adjectives can affect what a writer is trying to say. Teach young learners how to clarify their writing with a set of...\n
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\nLess vs. Fewer\n

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\nWhen should you use less, and when should you use fewer? Straighten out this dilemma with a helpful resource about using less vs. fewer based on sentence context clues. After reading detailed instructions and examples, young learners...\n
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