You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful instructional activity. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about...

How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

This writing packet includes all final product tasks and writing process resources for all 2nd and 3rd grade students. Lists of transition words, homophones, parts of speech, and more are included.

Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...

In this exercise, students practice writing expressions with variables and parentheses. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

Practice writing slightly more complex algebraic expressions to model real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

This unit plan includes reading and writing lessons connected to opinion writing. This resource was developed by the Academic English Mastery Program from the Los Angeles Unified School District.

This video prompt asks students to write about something that they have worked at in order to become successful and what obstacles they had to overcome. [0:38]

Domain-specific vocabulary helps your writing sound more authoritative. This table will show you how specific vocabulary helps you knowledgeably discuss topics within a domain. Examples are provided. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.d

Video clip displays someone on a scale weighing themselves and asks students to write about what public schools should do, if anything, about the growing obesity problem in America. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts....

A short video displays several people stirring a large pot of stew, and the prompt at the end asks students to describe how they would make the same dish. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:38] W.9-11.12 Write Routinely

Resource gives writing activities leveled K-1st grade, 2nd & 3rd grades and 4th through 8th grades.

A lesson through which middle schoolers identify, understand and work with important vocabulary words found in an online article on biodiversity. Based on the "Ten Important Words Plus" strategy that teachers can employ as part of...

Contains plans for seven lessons about working dogs that teach critical thinking skills and a vocabulary strategy called Word Storms. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

This lesson plan enables students to compile a list of vocabulary words in association with a recently read novel. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, downloadable resources, an interactive tool, and more.

This lesson has a new approach to vocabulary building where young scholars generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.

A video writing prompt where students are asked to consider the question, 'What do you think society values more than money?' [0:38]

A set of example problems and exercises on linear inequalities in two variables. Includes how to write them using a graph or a table of values.

This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.

These questions test knowledge of domain and range of exponential functions, properties of exponents, and population growth and compound interest modeled by exponential functions. Questions are true/false and multiple choice; solutions...

Write about something that you used to enjoy doing but that you no longer find interesting. What has changed and what have you learned?

In this exercise, students practice writing expressions with variables. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert ratios to rates and then compare the rates.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will analyze ordered pairs to help understand the relationship between the domain and range of relations. They will then be able to summarize their learning experiences through a...