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Barbara Greenwood's Guide to Writing for Children [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Barbara Greenwood, a Canadian author of numerous historical fiction books for children, has written this thirty-page writing guide where she explains the process she goes through in constructing a story. She covers such key topics as...
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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...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Online Writing Lab

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A great resource for middle-school, high-school, and college writers, with worksheets, articles, model papers, and presentations that will help you with research, grammar, style, job-search and professional writing, and more. Includes...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing With Virginia Hamilton

For Students 4th - 8th
This workshop helps students increase their skills in descriptive writing by following tips and suggestions from writer Virginia Hamilton. After reading about Hamilton, students write their descriptive pieces and publish them online. A...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Writing Summaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This guide is about the many facets and considerations involved when writing a summary. Also provides the reader options for which type of summary they are interested in researching, and provides a detailed analysis of each. Th e links...
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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.
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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.
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Colorado State University

Csu Writing Guides: Peer Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A detailed account of how to improve one's writing through the process of the peer review. Includes basic information and content-specific additions, such as peer review guidelines, questions, and online resources.
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LD Online

Ld Online: Writing Individualized Educational Programs for Success

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A very thorough article on the process of developing useful and legally correct IEPs. Author identifies a better approach that focuses only on the special needs of the child and how those needs are to be addressed.
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BBC

Bbc Gcse Bitesize: Word Processing and Desktop Publishing

For Students 9th - 10th
Review and take a quiz on word processing (WP) and desktop publishing (DP). Both of these applications are types of software.
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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...
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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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Other

The New Guide to Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains several helpful suggestions for writing a research paper including a schedule which breaks down the process into several smaller parts. Students can set reasonable deadlines for themselves. Also, this site outlines one...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Subordination and Coordination Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on subordination and coordination including, process of linking clauses with punctuation and conjunctions, types of conjunctions, dependent and independent clauses.
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Colorado State University

Csu Writing Guides: Creating and Using Overheads

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An informational guide on the creation, process, and considerations involved in using an overhead projector and/or transparency. Includes information about when to use overheads, basic design, types of visuals, and using the overheads...
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Other

Yukon College: Reading & Writing Academic Articles [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This detailed guide provides background information about the purpose and structure of journal articles, then walks the reader step-by-step through the reading process. Additional resources are included.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing a Hello Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students in the writing process to complete a poem about themselves.
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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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "High Elk's Treasure" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Explore the novel "High Elk's Treasure," by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, with the help of this study guide, useful for all stages of the reading process. Complete with pre-reading material, including author biography, novel introduction,...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "A Separate Peace" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, with the help of this study guide, useful for all stages of the reading process. Complete with pre-reading material, including author biography, novel introduction, discussion...
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies: The Five Paragraph Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A major requirement of the five paragraph essay is the use of sufficient, appropriate, and interesting supporting details. Use this guide for the entire process of writing the five paragraph essay, or focus on the section about...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Input Devices, Processing and Output Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the definitions and images of computer input and output devices. You can quiz yourself on page three by taking the Test Bite.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Book Important

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students through the writing process utilizing a framework for finding out the important things. It teaches them a structure for organizing their writing as well.