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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Formal Writing

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Writing formally means writing using words that are precise, objective, and impersonal. This lesson gives examples of formal language and also provides games and a test. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Formal Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on formal language. It reviews the basics of formal language and the need to know your audience. It explains how to change various types of informal language into formal language and provides examples....
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: English: Formal and Informal Speaking Quiz [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Assess the differences between formal and informal speech. Three levels of difficulty with answers provided.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Levels of Formality

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Basic information explaining how the context, i.e., the audience and your purpose, determines whether you should use formal, semi-formal, or informal language. The links on the sidebar provide much more information about formal academic...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Audience, Tone, and Style in Informative Text

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Students will read samples of informative writing and highlight examples of how tone and style are used by the authors. Students will then apply this knowledge by writing their own informative text. Multiple examples of student work and...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...
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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Essay Writing Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
All you want to know about writing essays, from prewriting to editing. Click on the tip-o-matic and find tips on anything dealing with grammar or writing.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Formal Tone in a Discursive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides several tips for using formal tone in an essay. The tips are arranged into 'Do' and 'Do not use' categories.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Informal Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses informal language and when it should be used. SL.9-10.6 Adapt to task/formal
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Formal Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used to understand features of formal official language through, collecting and analyzing examples, discussing when, why they are used; and noting the conventions of the language,...
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Writing a Letter

For Students 9th - 10th
This Skillswise site focuses on letter writing. Included is a video about why it is important to learn about letter writing, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
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TES Global

Tes: Letters: Formal & Informal

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides explanations for different modes of writing. Examples of informal and formats are provided.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Workshop 6: Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
"Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student" [58:21] demonstrates how five teachers Jenny Beasley, Vivian Johnson, Mary Cathryn Ricker, Laurie Swistak, and Jack Wildea use student-teacher conferences to help their students improve as...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Cliches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuse on cliches and explains why they should not be used in formal writing; it provides examples of other words to get the point across more clearly.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Audience, Purpose, Language in Electronic Messages

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson plan considers changes in writing style since the inception of e-mail and text messaging.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Anytime vs. Any Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on changes in language usage pertaining to "anytime" and "any time." In informal writing "anytime" can be used, but in formal writing "any time" is perferable. Examples are provided.
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TES Global

Tes: Non Fiction Unit 4 Formal/impersonal Writing: Tourists

For Teachers 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars will analyze tourism brochures to determine features related to nonfiction writing in this unit. Tourism websites may be used in lieu of the brochures. Cotswold and the North Leigh Roman...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Outlines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Show students how essential an outline is to writing a paper. This source provides explanations for writing an outline and information about how to create both formal and informal outlines.
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Writing Guides: Using Outlines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains how outlines can be used at different stages in the writing project. Covers outlines developed during research, prewriting, and drafting. Also discusses the formal outline, which may be required with a finished paper. Gives...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Informalities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of style techniques (with examples) used to create an informal tone in a written piece.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Discursive (Analytical) Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short tutorial about discursive, or analytical, writing from a Scottish Standard Grade examination preparation site. Contains seven pages of information about the following: organising, essay examples, finding information, planning,...
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Writing Hypotheses

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative page describes the true purposes of the hypothesis and how it should be used. Not only shows how they are written, but also helps students figure out the dependent versus independent variable.
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Randall Davis

Esl Net world.com: How Do You Write E Mail Messages?

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explains writing email messages in formal and informal style using Hotmail. It explains the steps taken in composing, replying to, and sending messages.

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