Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to develop their descriptive writing skills by creating their own restaurant menus. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

Have you ever needed someone to help you out with your writing? This site offers help to students and teachers. The lessons and resources are organized based on the 6 Writing Traits model. An especially interesting feature of the site is...

Lesson plan which allows kindergartners to combine their experiences and curiosity into developing beginning descriptions. Students use memories and illustrations in writing.

A fairly detailed list of steps to take, with descriptions of those steps, in order to write a good essay.

This lesson plan is a writing follow-up to the guided reading lesson plan, "What is a Pulgar?" It utilizes a Makes Sense Strategies Think-sheet to guide the writing.

This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.

In this lesson, students write a descriptive essay about an historical event as seen through the eyes of an alien from a different planet and time. The lesson encourages the use of colorful and exciting adjectives, adverbs, and verbs in...

This site provides several sample sentences which show sensory details and aid students in writing specific rather than general sentences. It is a good site for someone preparing to write a descriptive essay. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising essays so that they contain the appropriate appeals.

In this project, young scholars write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection.

This instructional activity requires students to write a descriptive essay and make an illustration of their own imaginary kingdom and share with the class. This instructional activity can be done after reading about Leslie's and Jesse's...

Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a narrative essay by identifying the differences between descriptive and narrative essays, knowing the difference between autobiographical and...

Joseph Bruchac gives a detailed description of his life and also discusses his involvement as a writer of Native American literature. Bruchac discusses his time as a volunteer teacher in West Africa, his memories of growing up with his...

Taken from "Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techmiques," the information on this website provides advice on how to read, understand, analyze, and write expository texts.