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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Paragraph [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF lesson, POWER PARAGRAPH, focuses on analysis and will also help students to understand structure in a paragraph. The "power" concept teaches the students to organize their sentences according to different levels of importance....
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concluding Transition Words

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This lesson goes over conclusion transition words and how they are used. It is one of three titled "Concluding Transition Words."
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
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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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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Spatial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an explanation of the spatial text structure. A diagram is provided to supplement the explanation, along with numerous transition words associated with arrangement in space.
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing the Body of a Research Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and create the bulk of a research paper: the body includes in-depth information, examples, as well as links to earlier steps in the process such as thesis statements, notecards, outline,...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Writing Services: Incorporating Evidence Into Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout explores how to effectively incorporate evidence to support your claims into your paper. It provides weak and strong examples to show effective ways to incorporate evidence clearly and cohesively. W.9-10.1c...
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Build sequencing skills by looking at transition words like first, next, then, and finally. Read four short paragraphs and use the transition clues to put the events in the correct order. Then use these words while typing an original...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
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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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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Punctuated Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief explanation of punctuated equilibrium includes paragraphs on the history of the theory and the controversy surrounding it.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Moving Through a Machine

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After enjoying chapter 3 from Robert McCloskey's classic chapter book Homer Price students will work together to expand upon McCloskey's description of how the donut-making machine works. Focusing on a variety of transitions, students...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides an explanation of the compare and contrast text structure. An explanation of the compare and contrast text structure is provided, and the compare and contrast text structure is demonstrated in a video...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Order of Importance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an explanation of the order of importance text structure. A diagram is provided to provide to supplement the explanation.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Problem and Solution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides an explanation of the problem and solution text structure. An explanaton of the problem and solution text structure is provided, and comparisons to the cause and effect text structure are demonstrated in a...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Numerous links related to analyzing text structures are provided on this site. Lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, graphic organizers, rubrics, and quizzes related to text structures are also provided to support students while analyzing...
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Cohesion: Using Repetition and Reference Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives a brief overview of how to achieve cohesion or coherence in writing. It explains how the repeating of key words and using reference words help tie ideas together. Use link in first paragraph to find charts of transitional...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analytical Paper: Key Elements: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in analytical papers. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conclusions: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces conclusions. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Conclusions."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Topic Sentences: Map Your Way to Writing One

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial on writing topic sentences includes 2 videos, 2 slide shows, and an audio clip. The first YouTube video explains the 4 parts of a topic sentence and tells where topic sentences belong. The 2 slide shows focus on the MAP...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style