College Board
Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Putting It Together: Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay
This lesson focuses on strategies for moving essay writing beyond the five-paragraph essay structure to one whose structure is determined by the content. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
TES Global
Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Short Adventure Stories
Inspired by the interactive plot ideas here, writers will create an original three-paragraph adventure story. First, each writer will create an original adventurer. Next, each writer will place the adventurer in a brief, organized...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Creative Writing Lesson Plan Ideas
This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Three Serendipitous Nouns
In this lesson plan, the book entitled A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? (Words Are Categorical), written by Brian P. Cleary, is used as the mentor text. After learning the basic definition of noun, a person, place, thing,...
University of Wisconsin
Univ. Of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Thesis and Purpose Statements
Explains the thesis statement and distinguishes it from the purpose statement. Gives an example of a paragraph containing both. Be sure try the link at the bottom of the page, "Developing a Thesis Statement." This page goes into further...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Eat: An Expository Slideshow Presentation
Students will write a three-paragraph essay explaining the steps necessary to follow a recipe and then present and serve the recipe to their classmates.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Whittle, Whittle It Down: Summarizing
This multi-day jigsaw activity engages students in summary writing. Students will work in small groups after direct instruction and write short summary paragraphs. Students will refer to the 'Five Rules For Writing a Summary' chart for...
Other
Book Rags: Articles: How to Write a Compare/contrast Essay
Learn about two different ways to organize a compare and contrast essay and how each way looks in a paragraph breakdown.
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making an Outline
A tip sheet on how to create and outline for a research paper.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organizing Your Paper
Two slideshows and a screencast on organizational patterns used when writing essays and speeches. The first is a 20-slide presentation explaining the seven most common organizational patterns used in writing: time sequence, spatial,...