Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and analyze...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Editing and Rewriting Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site examines all aspects of the rewriting process. Includes advice on how to use computers during the process, comments on peer editing, links to related topics, and an editing checklist.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Drafting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on drafting including making an outline and writing a draft from it, the crappy first draft, writing, revising, rewriting, and time management. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
Article
Caro Clarke

Rewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the 17th article in a series that helps the new fiction author with the final step--revision.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 11 Ops W Polynomials, Rewriting Expressions, Quad Functions, Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson 1 of 4 for Passport to Advanced Math. Students will add, subtract, and multiply polynomials. They will build quadratic functions and write equations to represent a context.
Unknown Type
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
Unknown Type
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
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.
Activity
Other

Rewriting Copy

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the differences between print and radio broadcasts, as well as finding tips on writing news for radio.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your students chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
Unknown Type
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Colons Effectively Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rewrite Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions

For Students 3rd - 5th
Practice writing a fraction as a mixed number and vice versa. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Taking the Mystery Out of Writing a Mystery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This mystery-writing instructional activity focuses on the structure of a short story and the elements of a mystery in particular. Students complete the entire writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing....
Unknown Type
McGraw Hill

Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Writer's Choice: Revising Sentence Fragments

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An exercise providing five sentence fragments that students are asked to revise and rewrite by adding a subject or a predicate. Students can check their answers when finished, and possible answer choices are provided.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.4: Rewriting Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal of this task is to manipulate equations in order to solve for a specified variable. Aligns with HSA-CED.A.4.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3.b: Rewriting a Quadratic Expression

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal of this task is to complete the square in a quadratic expression in order to find its minimum or maximum value. Aligns with HSA-SSE.B.3.b.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Rewriting Nominalizations."
Unknown Type
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rewrite Fractions as Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Test your understanding of rewriting fractions as decimals by answering these practice questions. Immediate feedback is given and hints or a video are available if needed.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Expository Escapade: Detective's Handbook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working on higher-level thinking skills with your readers is made easier with this lesson. You will have your students connect with and analyze a mystery story at their grade-appropriate level. Lesson plan, printable worksheets, and...
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Write Decimals as Fractions

For Students 3rd - 5th
Practice rewriting decimals as fractions. These problems use decimals with tenths and hundredths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interesting instructional activity which allows students to relate more fully to this work of Shakespeare by rewriting and recreating scenes with modern, digital devices in mind (cell phones, computers, etc.). Excellent and interactive...
Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra: Rational Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An online tutorial which teaches you how to rewrite a rational exponent in radical notation, simplify an expression that contains a rational exponent, and use rational exponents to simplify a radical expression. Works through example...
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By analyzing the first draft of Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence through primary source documents, young scholars can proceed to understand why a first draft was required, and why there are changes in the final version....