Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to generate ideas and questions as a part of the writing process in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Writing the Persuasive Essay:...
Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Essay Writing Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by Empire State College explains the entire process of essay writing. It begins by defining what an essay is and continues then through the entire process, from prewriting to gathering information to shaping information to...
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing an Autobiographical Incident

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson in which students are required to read and analyze biographies and autobiographies and use them as a model for writing about an autobiographical experience. Students complete the writing process and share written work with the class.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center Tips & Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The documents and videos collected here touch on most aspects of good academci writing, and all aspects of the writing process. Students can choose from the many topics to address the specific skill or concept they need to master.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...
Handout
Boise State University

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
Website
LD Online

Ld Online: Teaching Expressive Writing to Ld Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Author provides a research-based instructional essay on three components that consistently led to improved outcomes: adhering to a basic framework, teaching critical steps in the writing process, and providing feedback.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Writing Tips and Techniques for Your College Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This article gives the reader writing tips and techniques for your college essay.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Sample Essay 1 With Admissions Feedback

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article gives multiple samples of college admission essays that have been evaluated by college admissions officers.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Writing Process

For Teachers 2nd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents a lesson on the writing process. Students are taken through the process step-by-step as they compose a short story.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Website
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Planning a Discursive Essay

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips involved with the planning part of the writing process. The tips are arranged in the form of a plan to follow.
Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Handout
Joe Landsberger

Organizing and Pre Writing: Seven Stages of Writing Assignments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This research-based site provides step-by-step directions needed to complete an extended writing piece.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: What Skin Are You In?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using two songs by India Arie as well as an excerpt out of Sharon Flake's The Skin I'm In, students will explore their own self image. After analyzing the qualities that each student feels that they embody, they will compare these to the...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders prepare to write, develop, and publish a culminating task essay. They also reflect on the understanding they've built through the unit texts by engaging in a discussion about the unit question, and they prepare for the...
Activity
ACT360 Media

Writing Den

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
Website
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay that contains relevant information and valid inferences. W.9-10.2 Informative
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Persuasive Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart takes students through the process of writing a persuasive essay.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: 10th Lit/comp

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains learning modules on the following topics: Research and MLA Foundations, Novels and Short Stories, Poetry: the Sonnet, Shakespearean Drama, Informative and Argumentative Essays,Research and MLA Review, Narrative Nonfiction,...
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Other

Academic Help: Writing Samples: Expository Essay Samples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Links to several examples of expository essays in order to better understand the process and end result of a well written expository essay.