Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Writing Addition Sentences Sums to 10

For Students 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this interactive media source, the video shows how to write a number sentence from counting groups of pencils, followed by practice problems to assess understanding.
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Other

Math Stories: Write a Number Sentence

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
At this one page site you can work through step by step a sample problem that illustrates the problem solving strategy for "Write a number sentence." The answer is right there to help you check your thinking.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Equality Number Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Students will compare the number of circles in two boxes. If they are equal, they will write a number sentence. Explanations and examples are included.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Topic Sentences: Map Your Way to Writing One

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial on writing topic sentences includes 2 videos, 2 slide shows, and an audio clip. The first YouTube video explains the 4 parts of a topic sentence and tells where topic sentences belong. The 2 slide shows focus on the MAP...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on topic sentences using two slideshows. The first defines topic sentences, discusses purpose and placement, and provides a sample thesis statement followed by accompanying topic sentences samples. The second...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ten slides discussing the elements of a topic sentence and explaining how to write an effective topic sentence by using the acronym MAP (Main idea, Attitude, Preview).
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Paragraph Stats: Writing a Java Script Program to 'Measure' Text

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a challenging first-time programming project. You'll learn how to use JavaScript to create a simple program to analyze one or more paragraphs of text. Your program will count sentences, words and letters, and report the resulting...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nine-slide presentation explaining how to use the acronym MAP (main idea, attitude, preview) to edit and revise a topic sentence.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of notes and lessons focused on writing thesis statements and topic sentences. The lesson begins with a four-page downloadable PDF containing information about the function and form of a thesis statement as well as how to...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Analyzing First Words and Sentence Length

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After students are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments Exercise 1

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An exercise where students read ten sets of three sentences and chooses which sentence in each set is a complete sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any that were missed.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments Exercise 2

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A ten-question practice exercise where students look at a set of three sentences and then choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Identifying Tenses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this 10 question quiz, students match names of English tenses in one column with sentences that contain those verb tenses (written in all capital letters) in another column by typing the number of the sentence in the boxes provided.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Phrasal Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this quiz, students match phrasal verbs in one column with sentences that could contain those verbs in another column by typing the number of the sentence that fits the phrase in the box provided. Note that the phrasal verb could be...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, I

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this seven question quiz, students are given a sentence and asked a question about parts of the sentence, such as what is the subject of the sentence, or what is the underlined part of the sentence called. They are to select from the...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Parallel Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Defines the term and gives a number of detailed examples of its use. Also includes proofreading strategies to try. L.9-10.1a Parallelism
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Is a Sentence a Poem?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks students to analyze one-sentence poems in order to better understand poetry and how it works. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing Equations for Arrays

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will learn how to make number sentences for an array by walking around the classroom and writing number sentences for the different arrays the teacher hangs around the room. A video is included, along with examples of...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on revising the thesis and topic sentences using two videos and two slideshows. The first video discusses a 3-step revising process for making sure the thesis fits the paper; the second video focuses on what...
Unit Plan
Other

Carson Newman College: Close Reading of a Literary Passage [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a number of questions that students can ask themselves about a literary passage when doing a "Close Reading" and following this with an organized piece of writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Mall Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Eileen Christelow's picture book, Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the...