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Millcrest Academy: Rhyme Scheme

For Students 9th - 10th
This page lists and defines many poetic terms commonly associated with rhyme and rhyme scheme. Unfortunately, there are no examples given. The list includes the following: anapestic meter, blank verse, couplet, dactylic meter, end rhyme,...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Finding Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on finding evidence to support your thesis, how to incorporate your findings into your own work, and how to effectively quote, paraphrase, and summarize your information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9, W.11-12.1b...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Summary Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to write a summary including strategies for annotation, paraphrasing the thesis statement, distinguishing major ideas from minor ones, and picking appropriate quotes. It also provides videos including "How to...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Sources: Bringing Sources Into the Conversation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on identifying the five components of the "source sandwich:" transition and introduction; a signal phrase; quotation, paraphrase, or summary; citation, and explanation of material's relevance. A practice exercise is...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Sources: Putting It Together: Using Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a summary of the lessons on integrating credible sources using paraphrase, summary, and quotations and citing sources. Click on the Next button on the bottom right to learn about Why It Matters: Multimodality; you will have the...
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Other

Morningside Center: Active Listening

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
In this instructional activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Copyright Laws and What They Mean to You

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson teaches an overview of copyright laws and the consequences of plagiarism. Young scholars practice paraphrasing short passages and identifying instances of plagiarism.
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W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Paraphrase, Summary, Description: Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of a summary and how to write one effectively.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Paraphrasing Timbuktu

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly features the ancient city of Timbuktu, once a thriving center of learning and trade.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Writing a Research Report

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to write research papers. Includes an eight-step writing handout, information on quoting and paraphrasing, and tips for writing annotated bibliographies. Click on the side links to access some of these resources.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Uses examples to explain the right and wrong way to use reference material. Shows how a rewrite can still be plagiarism. Briefly discusses common knowledge and paraphrasing.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: The Clarifying Routine: Elaborating Vocabulary Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The more a new vocabulary word is associated with ideas from students' own experience, the more likely the word will become well 'networked' and a permanent part of memory. Making these links involves elaborating definitions of new...
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Other

University of Hong Kong: Identifying & Avoiding Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive exercise allows students to judge for themselves what is plagiarized and what is not. Could be used independently or as a class activity.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing About Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Purdue University's Writing Lab offers some hints and tips for writing about literature, including how to construct a thesis and how to handle secondary material.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Verbs and Quotes

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A ten-part learning module. The first six lessons include links to videos, a worksheet, a word list, notes, and a learning game on verbs. The last four lessons include links to videos and information on paraphrasing, citing, summarizing...
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Other

Gallaudet University: English Works: How to Avoid Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Plagiarism can cause you unnecessary problems. Review these simple suggestions on how to avoid plagiarism. Examples and rules help you give credit to the author.
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Unbc: Research Papers: The Steps [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document provides information on various aspects of writing a research paper. This specific document outlines the steps in writing a research paper. This document is a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Shakespeare: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's sonnets; it features three sonnets: Sonnet 29, 116, and 130 and provides links to a modern paraphrase/analysis of each. It also offers an audio of Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130. Students are to...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview: Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on understanding and avoiding plagiarism by properly paraphrasing, using quotes when appropriate, using in-text citatation, and a Works Cited Page. It provides links to a plagiarism discussion rubric and the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Avoiding Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Plagiarism is a serious offense in many educational settings. Plagiarism and copyright laws are reviewed here. Activities to avoid plagiarism are also provided through links. W.9-10.8 Sources, W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite;...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: How to Recognize Plagiarism: Tutorials and Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Indiana University provides an excellent set of tutorials on plagiarism, designed for university or advanced secondary students. After completing the tutorials, students may register to take a free certification test...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations.

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