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Lesson Plan 17: Novel, Take 2

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
It's all about using peer resources in this writing process lesson, which includes a fantastic novel revision worksheet packet. Learners have read a partner's story draft the night before, and groups have a "lightning round of praise"...
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Organizer
Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Conventions Chart

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Help your young writers pay close attention to their conventions and move toward revision with a straightforward chart. Learners can analyze 11 sentences on this page by noting down the first letter in each, the first of words in each,...
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Activity
Shmoop

ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.5

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working on revision? Check out this resource on Common Core standard W.9-10.5, which focuses in particular on the writing process. After reading some information about the specifics of the standard and how to implement it in the...
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Worksheet
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Sentence Combining/Sentence Variety

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Challenge your writers to improve their writing by introducing them to 10 strategies they can use to vary their sentence structures. Each strategy is described and examples given. Pupils then create their own sentences using this...
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Our Wonderful Stories: Lesson Plan 5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The fifth installment in a writing unit that culminates with a Hyperstudio illustrated group story project, this plan is ripe with ideas for ways to design group writing projects for elementary writers. Use the whole unit as a base from...
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Justice for All

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A reading of Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter opens a discussion of justice and fairness. Using a Venn diagram and an Idea Wheel graphic organizer, class members consider the similarities and differences in these two terms. They then...
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Write Right!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After watching part of a Club Write Kids video and discussing the editing process, each group of learners writes a letter to a favorite author. They ask for a copy of a page of manuscript that has gone through the editing process. Prior...
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Our Dinopals with WordArt

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Elementary schoolers use the writing process steps to write a descriptive paragraph about a fictional dinosaur. Using a tech tool lesson, they create a graphic title for the paragraph. A nice blending of technology with "old-fashioned"...
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Writing and Autobiography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Are you working on an autobiographical or narrative writing unit? Bring this activity to your class, as it takes young writers through the process of drafting and sequencing an autobiography. After observing and demonstrating steps of...
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Worksheet
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Unleash Your Inner Editor

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is a writing project for which participants write an entire novel in a single month. If you have decided to this in your class, this resource will be useful for you. This is an editing...
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Be Your Own Chief Editor

For Teachers 9th
The value of this punctuation and grammar lesson is in the SMART board presentation, which takes pupils through the proofreading process. It would be a good way to introduce the idea of proofreading in your class before beginning a unit...
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PPT
Edmond Public Schools

How to Use Sentence Variety to Strengthen Your Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Convey the importance of sentence variety and introduce your class to different sentence patterns. Have class members take notes or take some breaks in the presentation to practice writing the variety of patterns introduced. 
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PPT
Blinn College

The Writing Process

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Lead your learners through the different stages of the writing process. Show them this presentation as they work through a writing assignment, breaking it up over several days of work. You might also post this on a class website as a...
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PPT
Tech Coach Corner

The Hook

For Teachers 5th - 8th
A fishing hook inspires this presentation about different methods for starting a composition. Have class members take notes or edit current drafts while viewing the slide show. The animation is entertaining, but gets repetitive by the...
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Worksheet
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Run-On Sentences

For Students 9th - 12th
Have you seen run-on sentences in your learners' writing lately? If you're looking to address this issue, you might use this run-on sentence handout as a reference sheet. This handout lists examples of run-on sentences as well as...
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Peer Editing / Revision

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Complete the steps of the writing process. Emerging writers present final drafts of essays that include thesis statements, appropriate paragraphing, elaboration, and style. They participate in a peer editing activity that requires them...
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Handout
San José State University

Revising for Clarity: Characters and Their Actions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...
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Connotation: Three Lessons for Effective Word Choice

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Over the course of three days, middle schoolers explore the concept of connotation. They differentiate between the connotative and denotative meanings of sports team names, develop their own team names, logos, and text, and revise a news...
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Talking About the Future

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate how to communicate about the future using the proper verb tense. In this communication about the future lesson, students talk to a partner about future plans. They fill in an associated chart about the present simple...
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Worksheet
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BBC Learning English, Writing

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this proofreading worksheet, learners correctly rewrite a passage that contains paragraph, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.
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Lesson Plan
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Revision Race

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a board game that revises key vocabulary, grammar and topics that gives students the chance to practice extended turns. They interact with a game board, dice and four colored counters as they are divided into groups.
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The Writing Process Continues (Revising and Editing)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
For this writing process lesson, elementary schoolers revisit their rough draft copies for areas to improve. They are provided with a checklist to assist them then they conference with the teacher.
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Interactive
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Revision Exercises

For Students 2nd - 5th
For this revision worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete sentences and write the plural forms of words in pictures. Students complete 14 questions total.
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Worksheet
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School-Home Links: Writing Revision

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing practice worksheet, students write about a topic interesting to them. When finished, students read their writing out loud to their family and answer a series of questions aimed at improving the information in their...