This tutorial focuses on variety in sentence openers; it includes a slideshow about adding variety in sentence fluency and length, and why and how to add variety to sentence openers with examples. It also offers an audio clip with...

In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

An explanation and examples of various techniques that can be used in order to emphasize important sentences within a text.

Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases

For this lesson students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.

Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this activity asks students to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to...

In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.

In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.

In this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.

In this lesson plan, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.

In this lesson young scholars learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.

Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...

Being able to speak English fluently does not guarantee that a student will be able to use language effectively in academic settings. Fluency must be combined with higher order thinking skills to create an "academic language," which...

Six slides explaining how to use additive transition words to connect, or add, one idea to another to increase fluency. Examples are provided in a chart and within various types of sentences.