Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With
In this lesson, young scholars will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes
In this activity students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words
In this instructional activity students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment
In this lesson plan students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Turning Point Poems
In this lesson students will analyze Ellen Hopkins' Crank for word choice, voice and idea development.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: By Far the Best Book Ever [Pdf]
In Chris Van Allsburgh's The Z Was Zapped students will see the value of precise word choice by incorporating alliteration. Turn the material into a mini lesson without the book. [PDF]
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Appropriate Words or Expressions in Context Power Point
Learn about using context clues to find the most appropriate word choice in a specific context. Practice identifying correct word choices in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Lexical Density
An explanation of lexical density and examples of sentences that are and are not lexically dense.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Season Mandala
In this lesson, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record facts about the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter A
For this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, names, and nouns that begin with the letter "A" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "A"...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter B
In this lesson plan, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "B" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "B" words...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter J
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, names, and nouns that begin with the letter "J" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "J"...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Vivid Verbs W.5.3.d
This lesson engages students in analyzing word choices. Students will write descriptive paragraphs about interesting magazine pictures and ensure that they are using vivid words in their writings.
Other
Homework Online: Lord of the Flies, Chapter Summaries
Read chapter summaries of William Golding's novel, "Lord of the Flies." These summaries each include information about the chapter's plot and comments on the meaning behind Golding's writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Appropriate Language
Students can learn how to use language appropriately through these notes on pretentious language, nine presentation slides on using jargon, eleven presentation slides on cliches in writing, and a video also about cliches. [2:00]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Appropriate Language
A series of three PowerPoints and two videos defining pretentious language, jargon, and cliche and explaining how writers can avoid using them. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Inventing a New Word
Inspired by the main character's actions in Frindle by Andrew Clements, students will be asked to reinvent an everyday object with a brand new word. They will need to imagine a character has reinvented their word, and then they will...
Other
Teengagement: Targeted Intervention: Word Choice Shapes Meaning and Tone
In this lesson, students interpret how words are used in a literary text and examine how word choice affects meaning and tone. A sample analysis of a poem is presented, terms are defined, and question stems for assessment purposes are...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Using the Verb "Include" to Preface a List
Use this tutorial to learn when to use "include" and when to use a form of the verb "to be" when writing a list. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.3.2a: Choose Words and Phrases for Effect
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.3a: Choose words and phrases for effect.
Education.com
Education.com: L.3.3.a Worksheets: Choose Words and Phrases for Effect
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 21 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.3.A: Choose words and phrases for effect.
Education.com
Education.com: W.4.2.d Worksheets: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 4 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.2.D: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or...
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