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Samples of Informative Writing Prompts

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
The Mississippi Department of Education offers a sample of informative writing prompts. Great ideas for teachers and students.
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Hickman Community Charter District: Informative Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Sample topics in informative writing for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. CSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Types of Writing: Expository and Persuasive

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces two types of writing: expository and persuasive. It defines and provides examples of each kind. It offers links to MLA Formatting and Style Guide and sample papers of opinion and exository essays.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Question and Answer Books

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Beginning writers work through a Writing Workshop format to create Question and Answer books. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, possible texts, and samples of student work are all provided.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Developing a Definition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Not sure what a definition paper is? This is a great site from the Capital Community College to help you with developing a definition. Includes a sample essay and guiding questions.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on expository writing including definitions, terms, sample expository essays, sequencing events into chonological order, and links to information about how to write expository essays.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Scientists With the American Museum of Natural History

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an index of vocabulary-building information and quizzes, including a list of roots, prefixes, and suffixes with their meanings. It offers 365 SAT and GRE level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences. The quizzes...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Narrative Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Need help picking out the elements of a narrative? Check this site out from Capital Community College, and you'll see some background information, a sample essay, and directed questions to ask yourself about a text. W.9-10.3 Narrative,...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Writing Book Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page, which is provided for by the Indiana University, gives good information to help in writing book reviews. It tells you what to look for when reading, how to write, and provides a sample book review.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Georgia Authors, a Sampling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an informational flip chart that can be used as a springboard to broaden students familiarity with authors having strong Georgia ties. A suggestion would be to view one page a day and read a...
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University of Richmond

University of Richmond: What Is Analysis?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Richmond defines analysis through two sample paragraphs. It also contains a brief section on using analysis. A very brief site, but good, factual information is provided.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Reference Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Great resource for giving references to a prospective employers. Contains detailed information on purpose and format, as well as sample reference sheets.
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C-SPAN

C Span American Writers: The Autobiography of Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief summary of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Also includes an on-line sample of the work as well as links to other informational websites.
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Curated OER

Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes a book that goes into detail about education in China, Korea and Japan. It does show samples that provide interesting information on the schools in Japan.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Urdu Language

For Students 9th - 10th
A Wikipedia encyclopedia entry with detailed information on Urdu, the language of more than a 100 million people living in Pakistan, India and other parts of the world. Includes a clear explanation of the relationship between Hindi and...