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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Ocean Research Project

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Research paper writing is a lofty goal for kindergarten students, but this lesson will expose them to the process without being overwhelming. Students will divide into teams to learn about ocean creatures and then write a research paper...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Research Paper

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A site for both students and teachers to explore the writing of a research paper. Find teacher resources, student interactive mini-lessons, and a review of types of research resources.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides persuasive essay graphic organizers. Students will be able to write a persuasive essay more efficiently by using these tools.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Exposition

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson engages students in expository writing. Four graphic organizers are provided to assist students in the expository writing process.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Fix Homepage

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Have you ever needed someone to help you out with your writing? This site offers help to students and teachers. The lessons and resources are organized based on the 6 Writing Traits model. An especially interesting feature of the site is...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Sprint [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, use this hands-on activity to help young scholars revise their rough drafts. [PDF]
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Itsy Bitsy Math Songs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a great writing lesson for math teachers. The picture book Take Me Out of the Bathtub by Alan Katz demonstrates his love of familiar songs and nursery rhymes by writing new lyrics that can be sung to them. For this assignment,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Revising Questions & Planning the Survey

For Teachers 6th
How can the wording of a question influence how people respond? Students learn about biased and unbiased questions, revise the questions they create in the previous lesson, and agree on procedures for administering the survey.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World Around Us: Best Research Practices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the steps of the research process and the writing process in order to prepare a good research project. It also offers an extensive presentation of how to conduct research and the steps of the writing process. It...
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Other

Internet4classrooms: ccss.ela literacy.w.k.7 Participate in Shared Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Choose from a variety of lessons to teach kindergarteners the steps to a research and writing project.
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EL Education

El Education: The Well Project: A Drinking Water Report

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this lesson, students collected and tested well water from various locations to determine the quality of surface water used as drinking water throughout their town. Students prepared a general report for the town as well as specific...
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National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Report Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th
Do you need to write a paper for your Science class? Want to create a public service announcement to broadcast during your school's morning announcements? Or, do you need to make a digital slideshow for a small group project? If so,...