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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Speech Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn steps from the experts on how to write and deliver a great speech. There are tips and graphic organizers for writing. The final step is recording your speech on the Radio Hotline. Listen to other student writing as well.
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Colorado State University

Writing @ Csu: Writing Guides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a list of writing guides for various types of writing
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University of North Carolina

Writing Center: Handouts and Links

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resources for the writer of academic papers, with specific guidance about the mechanics of writing, citations, and effective expression. Lots of detail and lots of examples.
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Other

Hong Kong Polytech: Functions in Academic Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a wealth of interactive exercises dealing mainly with the structuring of sentences in different kinds of academic writing.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Improving Your Writing Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are looking for ways to make your writing clearer and more concise, check out this site. Many helpful hints are given here. Information can be downloaded in PDF format. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Reference guide to key grammatical terms and issues. Also gives additional reading suggestions and lists online resources.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text Using Strategies to Enhance Style & Tone

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about using literary devices to enhance style and tone in four lessons: Introduction, Style in Literature, Tone, and Your Turn.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is prepared by Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College, this extremely thorough site breaks down its discussion into categories of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Focuses most...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositions Locators in Time and Place

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is prepared by Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College and breaks down prepositions by time, place, and movement.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing Prepositions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This preposition practice activity provides a paragraph from a Hemingway short story. Students click on all of the prepositions used in prepositional phrases in the story. These words will appear in a box below. When finished they can...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Style Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief organizer in which students can analyze a given selection's writing style. Includes sections on diction, figures of speech, images, and sentence structure.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Education: Language: Conventions: Relative Adverbs

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Notes and examples explaining relative adverbs and how they are used in sentences. Includes practice worksheet.
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University of California

Can the English Language Survive?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Due to the "reliance on electronic media, rampant proliferation of homophonous misuses of the English language" has taken place. Test your knowledge on this quiz of homophones.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Grammar Handbook: Interjections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A resourceful and professional look at interjections. Provides definitions, examples, and additional information. A great site from the Writing Center at the University of Illinois.
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University College London

University College London: Adverbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar site sponsored by University College London features an entire lesson on adverbs and an exercise to test your knowledge.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry provides links to information about the correct usage of various parts of speech, complete with examples.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page offers a list of links to exercises/quizzes on the following topics: Parts of Speech/Grammar; Prepositional and Verbal Phrases; Adjectival, Adverbial, Nominal Phrases, and Clauses; Punctuation, Sentence Structure, Usage,...
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Towson University

Towson University:online Writing Support: Self Teaching Unit: Avoiding Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This module focuses on what makes a sentence including parts of speech, subjects and predicates, and phrases and clauses. It then explains fragments and how to avoid them. It offers links to several exercises and a post-quiz.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Parts of Speech / Grammar Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page is a list of links to parts of speech and self-grading grammar exercises/quizzes.
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Towson University

Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
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Towson University

Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Prepositions Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on using the correct Prepositions for each sentence. It is suitable for ESL as well as regular English classes.