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Curated OER

When A Story Met A Sandwich

For Teachers 6th - 12th
How is a story like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Use making a sandwich as a metaphor to remind your writers that a good, solid beginning, a rich and rewarding middle, and an ending that brings everything together spices up a...
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Writing
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Automattic

365 Days of Writing Prompts

For Students 5th - 12th
"If you could un-invent something what would it be?" "What are you more comfortable with—routine or spontaneity?" Here's a packet of one-a-day writing prompts. Although designed for fifth graders, the topics are appropriate for any grade...
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Curated OER

Mood and Tone

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars describe their current mood in several complete sentences. They compare their moods with moods set by authors through the tone of their writing. Students read a teacher prepared handout about mood/tone of writing. They...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Commas and Semicolons: Compound Sentences

For Students 5th - 9th
In this comma and semicolon worksheet, students are given sentences that they must correctly punctuate using either a comma or a semicolon.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”: A Common Core Exemplar

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
“So I’m going to have a copy of this play put in the cornerstone and the people a thousand years from now’ll know a few simple facts about us.” Our Town is used as the text in a Common Core exemplar that examines the dramatic and...
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Scholastic

Narrative Writing

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing narratives...
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Unit Plan
University of Kansas

Newspaper in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Report Writing Exercise

For Students 8th - 12th
There's specific language that is commonly used with each type of writing. With report writing, the writing is direct, clear and focused. Writers categorize 14 different phrases common to this style of writing and place them under the...
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Curated OER

Scriptwriting Skill Module: Dialogue

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
What is dialogue? What must it contain? Use this plan to discuss dialogue with your emerging writers. They write a dialogue in script form to dramatize a conversation. Dialogue examples are included. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Kinds of Sentences

For Students 6th - 9th
What is a declarative sentence? Interrogative sentence? If your middle schoolers are asking these questions, it's time to learn them once and for all! Start by reading through the information provided at the top of the page, and then...
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Writing
Fusco’s English Class

Journal Writing Prompts

For Students 5th - 9th
Inspire thoughtful journal entries with these detailed journal writing prompts. The resource includes 24 prompts that require learners to write expository, persuasive, and sometimes creative journal entires.
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Worksheet
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Punctuation

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students punctuate ten sentences with either commas or semicolons. Students check their answers when finished.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Breaking News

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars organize a newspaper article using a worksheet that helps them study the vocabulary of news articles. They write newspaper articles about mythical creatures invading contemporary Los Angeles.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Complex Sentence

For Students 7th - 9th
Develop the writing skills of your middle and high schoolers with this worksheet on complex, compound, and simple sentences. This resource assumes your learners are familiar with simple and compound sentences, so only the complex...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruitful Questions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine a fruit-related Q & A Science Times article. They write their own food science questions and answer them in the same format as the article. For homework, they analyze their fruit consumption according to U.S....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Verbs in Past Tense

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar learning exercise, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in past tense in thirty sentences. Students check to make sure each one is grammatically correct.
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Worksheet
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Subject-Verb Agreement (Subjects)

For Students 7th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students underline the subject and then choose the correct verb in parentheses that correctly completes twenty sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Finishing Unfinished Sentences

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with an expression like to see, to walk or to give.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

AP Chemistry Video Lab Book

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop a video lab book. In this web-based activity, students use flip cameras and the Web to create a video lab book of the labs they conducted through out the year. This will enable them to be better prepared for the AP exam...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Troublesome Verbs

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar learning exercise, students underline the correct verb in twenty sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Troublesome Verbs

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the correct verb in twenty sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Subject/Verb Agreement

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose and circle the correct verb that makes fifteen sentences grammatically correct. Students make sure each verb agrees with its subject.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Family

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use Microsoft Word to create the family newsletter which can be mailed out with the family Christmas cards.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Different Types of Sentences

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students mark a R for run-on, CS for a comma splice, F for fragment or C for correct for twenty sentences.

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