Need help with doing a descriptive paper or personal narrative? Need a writing lesson plan? Meet Virginia Hamilton and follow her step-by-step guide to writing. When done, you are eligible for a certificate signed by this author.

This page gives a quick, but thorough look at a few good ways to organize a piece of writing.

This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips to help students with essay organizational problems. The article suggests that students look at the essay's introduction, thesis, transitions, body paragraphs,...

This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides resources to help students organize the content of their essays. Resources to help students with outlining content and incorporating transition words are provided.

The Important Book, written by Margaret Wise Brown, provides a very specific writing pattern that even the youngest of writers can imitate. Requiring these types of patterns for writing tasks provides safety for all students, and when...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to write equations and check solutions.

Try to find the numerical pattern to describe what happens when Dan runs stairs. This interactive lesson focuses on using what you know about pattern recognition and using data to write expressions in order for you to figure out the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize and find numerical patterns by finding a rule

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize and find numerical patterns by finding a rule

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students write and solve algebraic equations that model verbal situations. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional...

Hosted by Vivica A. Fox, Writing and Spelling examines the connection between reading and writing and between spelling and composition. The program features successful methods for encouraging children to write and build their...

Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...

This PDF article explains five different patterns of organization to help students select an organization that matches the purpose of their writing so that the audience can more easily follow along. The patterns are sequential, spatial,...

Six mini-lessons teach young writers how to borrow ideas or patterns from popular children's books to use in their Writing Workshop pieces. Text ideas and student samples are provided.

This entry explains sentence patterns and lists the 10 sentence patterns that cover most sentences including examples of each.

Students read the book The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along by Mahlon Hoagland to examine the sixteen patterns of life presented in the book. As students study...

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.

This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.

This entry focuses on sentence pattern transformations including to active/passive voice, cleft, interrogative with yes or no answer, negative, emphasis, and to interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. It includes an explanation and...

An introduction to creative writing with links to more information on the following topics: Fiction Writing Basics, Pattern and Variation in Poetry, Pattern and Variation: Aural, Pattern and Variation: Visual, characters and Fiction...

This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.

This page offers a list of links to entries about sentence structure including elements of sentence construction, sentence types and punctuation, connectors, sentence patterns, pattern transformations, and active/passive voice.

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.