Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on writing the conclusion of your speech including the role of the conclusion, summarizing ideas, signaling the end, and managing Q&A.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Prewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on prewriting including the purpose and characteristics of prewriting, prewriting strategies, the rhetorical context, and developing a working thesis statement. It also includes a slide show about author, audience,...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Introduction to Writing Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the writing process and explains why it is a process. It lists the stages of the writing process and the learning objectives for the lessons on the topic. The NEXT button at the bottom of each section will take you...
Handout
Other

Canadaone.com: Sailing the Seven Cs of Effective Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Interesting article from Canadaone.com that outlines the author's seven C's of effective writing. Each of the concepts (all beginning with the letter "C") includes an explanation that demonstrates why the concept is important to the...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout focuses on what an exploratory or inquiry paper is and how to write the introduction including the questions you need to answer and setting the context, stating why the main idea is important, and stating your research...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Introductions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on identifying and evaluating strategies for writing introductions.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on strategies for writing effective conclusions. It provides a list of strategies and a sample essay.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Putting It Together: Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on strategies for moving essay writing beyond the five-paragraph essay structure to one whose structure is determined by the content. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Key Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on effective paragraph construction especially topic sentences.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Logic in Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Revising Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on evaluating the structure of paragraphs and revising them.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Revising

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on revising your drafts to create your final paper. It includes a revision checklist, getting feedback from someone you trust, responding and redrafting, revising and proofreading, and how to write the final copy.
Handout
Other

Wheeling Jesuit University: How to Write a Cause Effect Essay [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing lab explains the terms "cause" and "effect" and how to write cause-effect essays.
Article
Leaf Group

Classroom: How to Write Narrative Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on how to write conclusions for narratives by sharing a takeaway message, a lesson or a reflection -- a new discovery of meaning in life -- for your reader. W.9-10.3e Conclusion, W.11-12.3e Narrative Conclusion
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Effective Introductions and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust your thesis so it accurately reflects the main idea of your essay. You will learn how to breathe life into a dead introduction...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Effective Intro & Conclusion & Variety of Sentence Structures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the introduction which establishes the context for the information that will form the body of the essay, connecting the conclusion to the introduction,...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Literary Essays' Inclusion of Personal Opinions and Facts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.
Article
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Writing Narrative Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides the components of narrative writing. The author emphasizes ways to make narrative writing better. W.9-10.3e Conclusion
Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: The Writing Center: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Offers strategies for writing conclusions, things to avoid, and examples of effective conclusions.
Handout
Harvard University

Harvard Univ.: Harvard College Writing Center: Ending the Essay: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource teaches how to write a conclusion for an essay. Also includes a few pointers on how not to end one.
Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Length of the Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing tutorial teaches you the proper length of an introductory paragraph.
Activity
Harvey Mudd College

Claremont Colleges: Writing an Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief handout describing different forms of argument for writing.
Website
Other

Writing Den: Essay Builder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site that gives an overview and general rules in how to write an essay. Sections include Parts of an Essay, How to Write an Essay, and Kinds of Essays.