Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition: Types of Writing Instruction
This lesson focuses on the four types of writing: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive including definition and characteristics of each and an interactive activity over they types. It also provides links to more information...
Other
Write Source: Writing Topics
The best way to write is to write! Here are a variety of writing prompts for grades 1-12. A valuable resource.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Memoir
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition:types of Writing: Sentence Errors
This lesson focuses on sentence errors like fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences. It expains these errors, provides examples, and offers an interactive practice activity.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Compound Words
Check out this extensive website focused on compound words. Find out how they are used in writing. Don't miss out on this informative site.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memories Sorted on a Timeline
This is a book review for Marley and Me by John Grogan in which he details events, both good and bad, in his life with his dog Marley. The activity focuses on having students remember and write down experiences in their lives (both good...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics
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...
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Chapter 7: Activities
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 7 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 7. Focus of the...
Other
O.henry: The Last Leaf Lesson and Activities
The ELLSA site offers this very complete set of lessons about The Last Leaf, focusing on setting, but including vocabulary and other elements.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity 5: Color Scripts
The goals of this activity focuses on analyzing color scripts and creating an original color script. It has three parts: Analyze, practice, and generate.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language Adds Zest!
This slideshow focuses on how to revise writing using concise language by eliminating unnecessary words and redundancy, avoiding generic phrases, using active voice and familiar terms, and looking for just the right words to convey...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Prose: Strengthening Sentences
This lesson focuses on strenthening sentences in compositions by combining sentences, varying sentence length, using active voice, and using parallel construction. It provides examples and a practice exercise.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Activity: Awesome Alliteration | Word Girl
This WordGirl lesson focuses on alliteration. Students will generate a list of alliterative words, then write an original poem using those words.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game
For grades 1 to 3, this game has learners write a story by focusing on the word choice.
Other
Communication in Math Activities for Grades K 2
Early learners can build their math communication skills with these "Real-world," writing and problem solving activities. Students focus on developing strategies for using math vocabulary and writing about math.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Proper Voice, Tense, and Syntax
This lesson focuses on editing voice, verb tense, and syntax. It includes practice exercises.
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Teaching Reading Strategies
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 8 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 8. Focus of the...
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Chapter 10: Activities
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 10 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 10. Focus of the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Language Arts Challenge
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of: ABC order, nouns, plurals, irregular plurals, sentences and quotation marks.
Other
Ms. Magazine: Homepage
Ms. Magazine is a monthly publication which focuses on international women's issues. Content includes articles from the magazine, book reviews, an action center, and more.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
This slideshow lesson focuses on the passive voice. It defines it, explains the effective uses of passive voice, discusses how to write effective sentences using passive voice, and provides examples.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 5: Los Colores
In this fifth unit of an introductory Spanish course that focuses on Costa Rico, students learn to talk and write about themselves, how gestures are interpreted differently in English and Spanish, to recite a song, investigate how...