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Mghhe: Student Writing Exercise and Activities: Middle Adulthood
Several student writing exercises on topics related to middle adulthood.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Journal Writing Exercises for Kids
This article focuses on journal writing including the benefits, goals for parents and teachers, materials needed, journal exercises, and teaching kids how to keep a journal.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Writing About Art: Comparing Portraits
Students will compare and contrast an academic and an Impressionist portrait through a writing exercise and discussion. Each student will then write a formal commission letter to one of the artists, requesting a portrait. Adaptations for...
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Western Michigan University: Writing Positive Messages
Excellent and in-depth site on how to write short, positive messages. Gives information on structure, pace, positive replies, announcements, and apologies (used as positives).
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercises in Capitalization
In this exercise, students are read sentences with boxes in which to correct a capitalization error. They need to determine if the word is correctly capitalized and type a "C" in the box for correct or an "I" in the box for incorrect.
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Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Childhood Remembrances: Lesson Plans for "Nikki Rosa"
Using Giovanni's poem as a springboard, these lessons guide students through an autobiographical writing exercise. Includes multimedia and interactive elements.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Colons Effectively Quiz
Interactive writing exercises. Click on "The sentence, please!" and a sentence will appear in the top text-area. Correct the sentence as needed by adding, removing, or moving the colon and rewriting as needed. Then click on "Grammar's...
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Writing world.com: Writing Dialogue for Children
A good site for teachers and writers looking to write for children, or teach children how to write dialogue. Includes tips and guidelines.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Accept/except Spelling Exercise
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice in applying the use of accept and except. L.11-12.2b Spelling
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parts of Speech
In this exercise, students are asked to identify the underlined parts of speech used in the sentence or to identify the full tense classification of the sentence from five options given. Feedback is given when answer is selected....
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Boggle's World: Creative Writing Worksheets
A large collection of downloadable writing prompt worksheets to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Includes a variety of themes and some on special celebrations, such as Christmas and Halloween.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 3
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with revising writing by having students read and revise a passage to reduce redundancy and wordiness.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: What Is Descriptive Writing?
This lesson focuses on what descriptive writing including defining it and discussing the characteristics. It includes links to several websites about descriptive writing including the Discovery Education Video: "Literature for Children:...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction: Sentence Construction
This lesson from a grammar and writing unit focuses on sentence construction including writing clear, concise sentences useing the correct subject-verb agreement. It features links to The Writer's Handbook: Clear, Concise, Sentences,...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Writing Algebraic Expressions and Equations
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of writing algebraic expressions and equations. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3: Writing Algebraic Expressions and Equations
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of writing algebraic expressions and equations. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom...
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Hong Kong Polytech: Functions in Academic Writing
Provides a wealth of interactive exercises dealing mainly with the structuring of sentences in different kinds of academic writing.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise Plurals & Possessives
This site offers exercises in the sometimes confusing use of plurals of possessives. In each space write "C" if correct, or "I" if incorrect. Then click on "Submit Application" for the answers.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Weather Is Frightful
Students are asked to explain how climate and extreme weather events affect people's lives in this writing exercise provided by Science Now!
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Exercise
From the Purdue University Writing Lab, this is an exercise to practice using numbers in writing. Answers are from a link at the bottom of the page.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Writing Concise Sentences
Practice rewriting each of these twelve sentences in a more clear and concise manner. Check each sentence against the answer provided to see how well they match up.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Pronoun Reference and Agreement: English Iii Writing
This lesson focuses on pronoun reference and agreement; it also provides an excellent overview of the types of pronouns with practice exercises.
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