Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Place Poems
In this lesson learners will develop a poem while thinking about a special place. They will develop their ideas using strong word choice and figurative language. After the students have completed their ideas, they will be linked together...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Alliterative Insects
In this lesson students develop a story about an insect while utilizing previously written sentences with strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Creating a Parallel World
Inspired by the opening events in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, students are asked to create an original parallel world that is similar to ours but different in certain ways. They will focus on the similarities and differences...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Patterns for Making Meaning
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...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Sequence
This learning module provides an explanation of the text structure for sequence. An explanation of the text structure for a sequence is provided, and chronological order text structure is demonstrated in a video tutorial lesson [1:24]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Noise
The words noise, nausea, and naval all stem from the same Latin root. Jessica Oreck divulges how their spellings and meanings diverged from the original naus. [2:02]
Other
Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing
This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...
Other
San State Francisco University: Newsworx (1001 Words)
View the media-rich work of teams of student journalists assigned to produce high-interest feature stories using pictures, audio, and words. Learn how to tell a story well by thinking critically about the different choices made by each...
Other
Word Detective
The Word Detective provides great information on the origin of certain words and phrases that are everyday lingo. Click on Index and chose from the alphabetical list or type the word you are looking for in the search box.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Budget Technology [Pdf]
Students will be divided into pairs and given a $1000 budget (imaginary) to create a project focusing on their area of interest within the school curriculum that will include a culminating audio/visual presentation. They must write an...
Other
Newswriting: Resource for Journalists: 100 Worst Groaners
A fun site filled with "groaners," or cliches, that you hear over and over again on the evening news.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: A Separate Peace Wordlist and Vocabulary Puzzles
This page offers an A Separate Peace wordlist and vocabulary word puzzles.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Greek Mythologies
This page offers a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 56 vocabulary words pertaining to Greek Mythology. It also provides an extensive vocabulary word list for mythology, lesson plan ideas, and zodiac characteristics.
Other
News Lab: Elements of Great Storytelling
This is a great site for broadcast journalists; it focuses on the elements that make a story great. You can find tips on writing from some of the top people in the industry.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Perspective in Narrative
Interactive lesson which allows students to determine the perspective or point of view of a story character by imagining actually spending a day in their "shoes." Based on Atticus's statement in "To Kill a Mockingbird." W.11-12.3, 3a,...
Other
World Wide Words/exploring the English Language
"World Wide Words is devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. The Words site is organized into sections, each with its own index to help you find your way about."
University of Victoria (Canada)
Univ. Of Victoria: Some and Any: Indefinte Articles
This page contains a brief explanation of the use of the determiners "some" and "any" followed by a fill-in exercise. The exercise is self-correcting but can be discussed between teacher and student to expand the scope of the application.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Skimming Exercise
Timed practice and multiple choice questions are this site's offering. First you skim, rapidly, then you answer the questions and get immediate feedback and a chance to continue practicing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Central Conflict
An eight-slide document introducing central conflict in a literary text and providing examples from The Arabian Nights.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connecting With Reading
A brief slideshow that identifies and defines the ways that readers can make connections while reading a text (Text to Self, Text to Text and Text to World) and instructions about annotating while reading. Includes a worksheet that...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Determining Your Audience
On this website you will find information, two presentations, and a practice worksheet explaining how to decide the audience of a written piece and how to appeal to an intended or general audience in an original text....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Suspense
This slideshow focuses on the use of suspense in fiction by stating the purpose of suspense, discussing four ways authors create suspense, showing that all forms of literature contain suspense, and presenting an example with John...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Item in a Series
This site is concerned with writing any kinds of items in a series. It verbally and graphically illustrates parallel structure, and shows how to punctuate a series.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...