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Writing the Position Paper Activities & Project

Writing the Position Paper

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewBuilding a hamburger is just like ... writing a research paper? Scholars create their own reports on their individual nations in the fourth lesson of an eight-part series on the Model United Nations. Using the hamburger graphic...
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Constructed Response Workbook Lesson Plan

Constructed Response Workbook

5th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Learning how to express and justify a point of view is an essential skill. A helpful workbook guides scholars in crafting a constructed response essay. The comprehensive resource contains a variety of graphic organizers to help...
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Literature (Fiction) Website

Literature (Fiction)

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
An informative installment of the Writing for Specific Fields series helps readers learn how to interpret and write about fiction. The website details nine easy steps for writing a literary analysis—a useful method for all readers!
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Music Website

Music

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Music is a universal pleasure, but writing about it can be a little trickier. An informative handout discusses common types of music writing assignments that one might encounter in a college-level course. Individuals read about musical...
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Lesson 11: Students Revise Free-Verse Poems Lesson Plan

Lesson 11: Students Revise Free-Verse Poems

3rd - 5th
CCSS: Designed
Using a rubric, young writers work in small groups to revise their first drafts of a free-verse poem. After a productive discussion, poets compose their final draft.  
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Group Writing Website

Group Writing

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Two heads are better than one, especially during the writing process. Sometimes, scholars benefit from participating in group writing assignments, as one of the handouts in a series on specific writing assignments outlines. The process...
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Plagiarism is Stealing! Lesson Plan

Plagiarism is Stealing!

9th
CCSS: Designed
Stop, thief! Do your pupils understand the consequences of plagiarism? Lesson three of six in a series of college and career readiness activities demonstrates the dangers of taking credit for someone else's work. Learners engage in...
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Writing As Decision Making Video

Writing As Decision Making

2 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Budding English pros must make decisions in every phase of the writing process. As a video from the UNC Writing Center explains, the decisions they make help mold and shape a piece of writing. Making the right choice is important, so the...
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Understanding Assignments Website

Understanding Assignments

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
"What do we have to do again?" Chances are you hear this question all the time. Here's a handout that offers scholars tips on how to understand college writing assignments. Class members learn strategies to help them decode assignments...
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Reading to Write Website

Reading to Write

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Silly journal and essay prompts may be fun to write, but they don't model the kind of writing needed for college papers and standardized tests. The 15th part in a series of 24 covers the concept of reading to write—during and after...
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Getting Feedback Website

Getting Feedback

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
As many writers know, you are your own worst editor. The 10th installment in the Writing the Paper series explains that getting feedback from others is crucial to the writing process. The handout highlights the best time to ask others to...
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Why We Cite Video

Why We Cite

2 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Teaching writers about citing their sources should go beyond simply showing them how to structure a citation. Using a short video, writers learn the importance of citations. The  narrator introduces concepts such as intellectual...
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Revising Drafts Website

Revising Drafts

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Don't simply proofread ... revise instead! Revising drafts is the topic of the 17th handout in UNC's Writing the Paper series of 24 lessons. Writers discover the importance of revision, as well as steps to follow during the process.
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Reading Aloud Website

Reading Aloud

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Warning: reading your paper aloud may cause bystanders to think you're talking to yourself. However, as the 14th installment of 24 in the Writing the Paper series from UNC explains, it is one of the best strategies for revision. Through...
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Procrastination Website

Procrastination

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Inevitably, whenever you give an assignment, at least one person won't start until the last minute. As the 13th handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series explains, procrastination sometimes brings consequences. It breaks down...
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Songwriting Skills
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Songwriting Skills

5th - 10th
Check out these detailed lessons using popular music across genres to explain songwriting concepts such as figurative language, elaboration, and tone. Learners examine lyrics to the songs from different musical genres and practice putting the skills into practice. These nine resources could easily be used with a poetry writing focus as well, and everything you need is here!
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The Glyfada Method eBook

The Glyfada Method

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Here's a recipe for writing that kicks instruction up a notch, BAM! The online reading about the Glyfada Method helps teachers and pupils learn more about the method and how to implement it in their own writing. Perfect for the entire...
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Words by Heart: Level 3 Writing Assignment Activities & Project

Words by Heart: Level 3 Writing Assignment

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Get in touch with the emotional side of writing by reading Words By Heart. The writing assignment helps learners make personal connections with the text and hone their writing skills by exploring a time that they had to forgive or be...
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Writing Editorials Unit

Writing Editorials

5th - 7th
CCSS: Designed
Should school be year round? An engaging unit explores this very question through the use of editorial writing. Complete with model editorials, pre-writing worksheets, and graphic organizers for research, this rigorous unit scaffolds...
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Papers and Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9 Video

Papers and Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9

9 mins 7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Your research paper is due tomorrow, and you're staring at the dreaded blank screen. How can you avoid this problem next time? Watch a short, informative video on writing papers and essays to review the importance of the writing process...
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Teaching Playwriting in Schools Unit

Teaching Playwriting in Schools

1st - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The world is a stage, and so is your classroom! Hone the skills of the next generation of Tony® award winners with a set of exercises, reference pages, writing prompts, and excerpts from famous plays.
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Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 29 Lesson Plan

Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 29

9th
CCSS: Designed
Writers review the provided essay rubric, edit and rewrite if necessary, polish their work, and then submit their argument essay.
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Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 28 Lesson Plan

Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 28

9th
CCSS: Designed
A writers continue to revise their argument essay, the focus shifts to a editing grammatical conventions, parallel structure, and varying syntax to add interest. After examining model sentences that demonstrate sentence variety, writers...
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Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 27 Lesson Plan

Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 27

9th
CCSS: Designed
Crafting a clear and cohesive conclusion to any piece of writing is crucial. A good conclusion restates the central claim posed in the introduction, briefly summarizes the supporting claims, and presents a new way of thinking about the...
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