New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay
This lesson is a final step towards supporting young scholars to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Revising Paragraphs
This lesson focuses on evaluating the structure of paragraphs and revising them.
English Zone
English zone.com: Writing Zone
Writing practice site from English-Zone.com. Paragraphing and writing parts of a story kind of exercises included. Some free content; subscription-based access otherwise.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2
In this lesson, you are going to practice evaluating sentences, adding to sentences, and combining sentences. You are also going to do sentence imitation to boost your sentence savvy.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Taking the "Un" Out of "Unwritten"
In this lesson plan, learners will use a the rap song about prefixes, suffixes and roots and the song "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield. Students will be engaged as they are practice their understanding of prefixes, suffixes and roots....
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Grade 7: Proofreading Practice
This exercise has students read a paragraph about Horace Pippin's art, find the 5 misspelled words, and type them in the boxes provided. Java is required.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Structuring Your Individual Arguments
A diagram is provided to help students organize an argument. Assertions, sub-assertions, evidence, and counterarguments are included. Click on page 2 at the bottom to see the functions of the above and page 3 to for a practice activity....
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Writing a Proof: Direct Euclidean Proofs
This site is a look into the world of geometric proofs. You'll learn what a proof is and about the different types of proofs. Try the practice page to check your understanding. Teachers can check out the teacher resources for lesson and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Logic in Paragraphs
This activity focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.
TES Global
Tes: Writing Task Sheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource includes a collection of ten different task sheets for independent work on particular writing skills. Each worksheet provides practice for one aspect that will help improve student writing.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
ACT360 Media
Act Den: Writing Den
Need some extra help in spelling, grammar, and writing? Search no further. The writing den gives great tips for sentence structure and even on writing essays. A lot of great information for language arts students and teachers.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Key Sentences
This lesson focuses on effective paragraph construction especially topic sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing Prepositions
This preposition practice activity provides a paragraph from a Hemingway short story. Students click on all of the prepositions used in prepositional phrases in the story. These words will appear in a box below. When finished they can...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Comma Usage
In this comma quiz, students read each of two paragraphs and insert necessary commas. When finished with both paragraphs, they click "Explanations" to see the correct comma placements. Java is required. Links are also provided to "Guide...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz in Punctuation
In this interactive grammar quiz, students are asked to read a paragraph and insert the correct punctuation, capitalization, and corrected spellings. When finished, they click on "Grammar's Version" for the corrected paragraph with...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using Science in an Inquiry Study
A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Grade 7: Practice Proofreading
In this exercise, students are to read a paragraph about Emily Dickinson, find the 5 misspelled words, and type them correctly in the boxes provided. Java is required.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Basic Level Paraphrase and Summary Writing
Practice paraphrasing sentences and summarizing short paragraphs.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of a Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers all of the areas of a paragraph including topic sentence, supporting sentences, and clincher sentence. Different kinds of supporting details are explained and students can practice...
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Glenco: Writer's Choice: Grade 7:grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Two interactive exercises where students retype three short paragraphs while making corrections in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage. When finished, answers can be displayed so students can check the accuracy of...