Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....

This writing lesson is fashioned after Harry Potter's encounter with a communicative boa constrictor at the zoo. Inspired by Rowling's original idea, students will be asked to create a three-part story about an original magical animal...

In this instructional activity, young scholars write summaries of researched information in their own words and quote text accurately.

Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...

Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? For this minilesson, students explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."

Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.

This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center resource provides tips to ensure organizational flow content.