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Education.com: L.4.3.a Worksheets: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 16 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.3.A: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Word Wake Up

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars match a strong word choice with its overused counterpart. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Pun Fun [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students choose three selections of interesting word play in a text and then work with a partner to discuss their choices. Materials are included.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Case Against "Good" and "Bad"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Don't take the easy route! Instead, use this little trick to improve your writing -- let go of the words "good" and "bad," and push yourself to illustrate, elucidate, and illuminate your world with language. Free registration is required...
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Other

Summary Central: Lord of the Flies by W. Golding

For Students 9th - 10th
This notes-style page surveys Golding's novel from its plot to its characters, style, diction, and other features.
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue [Excerpt]" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue." Diction is blue while tone is red and imagery is green. Click on any word to see the...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Teaching Tone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach tone using passages from Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allen Poe. We annotate passages focusing on diction and syntax to illustrate how the language contributes to the overall tone of the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Elements of Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 2-page PDF of a chart that lists eight elements of poetry, questions to ask concerning each element, and tips and explanations to aid the understanding of each element. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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University of Pennsylvania

U Penn: Poetic Terms and Types

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click on these terms for an excellent definition of these poetic terms, some from the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes types of poetry as well as terms.
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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Other

Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.
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Other

Blinn College: Bryan Writing Center: Poetry Explication [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides guidelines for analyzing poetry. Students must make certain they have a basic understanding of a poem, then analyze the language used. A set of 26 questions is offered that students can reference to help them analyze a poem....
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision of Word Choice [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
Helping students revise their rough drafts can be a difficult process. Make it a little easier with this 3-step lesson regarding revision of word choice.
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Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Precise Vocabulary

For Students 4th Standards
A short explanation of the importance of using precise word choice in writing and using context clues to help you understand the meaning of precise words when reading. Click on Model to for an example with explanation and then click on...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphasis: Strong Language: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces adding emphasis through the use of strong language.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Word Choice: Lesson 2

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A slideshow introducing the topic of word choice and discussing its importance.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Six Traits Word Choice

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Comprehensive flipchart using a number of Activstudio tools to allow students to discover and illustrate words in their writings. Students can paint pictures with their word choice and descriptive words...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Grammar: Powerful Verbs

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the use of powerful verbs, such as hobbled instead of went, through the cloze procedure.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cliches

For Students 9th - 10th
This lessons introduces cliches and discusses their use.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cliches

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces cliches in writing.
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Education Development Center

Tv411: Vocabulary: Finding New Ways to Say Something: Activity 1 of 3

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice your vocabulary skills by choosing the stronger synonym from a word bank to complete each sentence.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing With Pizzazz Word Choice

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews ways that students can create more meaningful writing by choosing words carefully. Links to online thesaurus and opportunities to evaluate and create sentences are included.
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California State University

Csun: Aristotle: The Poetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to the work of Aristotle concentrated in his book, "The Poetics". It tells of his "Process of Imitation", of which the first step is language/diction. However, it does not go into detail on this subject.

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