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College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
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,...
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How to Approach Sentence and Paragraph Sequence Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips for tackling the questions on the SAT Writing and Language Test that ask you to improve the order of sentences in a paragraph or paragraphs in a passage.
Handout
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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Three Serendipitous Nouns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Character Names & Powerful Opening Paragraphs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this instructional activity, Bertrand R. Brinley's The Mad Scientist's Club is used as a mentor text. Students will analyze the introductory paragraph of the mentor text and its sequel. Then students will use an interactive button to...
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Organization for Community Networks

Organization for Community Network: Writing Successful Paragraphs

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
How can you learn to write a successful paragraph? This site features a lesson plan to help your students sharpen their writing skills.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Start With What Isn't There

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will describe a setting, attempting to set a mood for their readers in two paragraphs. Borrowing a technique from Stephen Kramer's two-page introduction to Caves, they will begin with a paragraph that explains...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Picture Book Writing Lesson: Pros, Cons, and Interesting Hooks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by the picture book How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long, an enthusiastic tale that explores the pros and cons of being a pirate, students will research an interesting job and prepare to write about it. While researching, the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Short Adventure Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: To Imitate Two Nature Writers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published authors...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Lamb to the Slaughter Persuasive Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a PDF of a persuasive writing assignment for the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It asks the students to watch a linked video clip of the closing argument by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and apply...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Revising Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on evaluating the structure of paragraphs and revising them.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Logic in Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.
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Other

Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Organizing Paragraphs and Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page gives a quick, but thorough look at a few good ways to organize a piece of writing.
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides tips to writing a strong conclusion to an essay. The article discusses incorporating an anecdote, a basic summary, a startling summary, famous ideas, and/or hints to...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan 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...
Handout
Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: Historical Writing: Writing Resources for Students

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resources for helping students to write historical essays. Includes a movie trailer to demonstrate the traits of a good introduction, tips for writing a paragraph, tips for formal writing, and guidelines for citing sources.
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Other

Old Dominion University: Writing Sample Placement Test: Sample Essay

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
This is a sample writing placement test narrative essay and a list of questions students should ask themselves about their writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
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TES Global

Tes: Writing Task Sheets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource includes a collection of ten different task sheets for independent work on particular writing skills. Each worksheet provides practice for one aspect that will help improve student writing.
Handout
University of Wisconsin

Univ. Of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Thesis and Purpose Statements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Creative Writing Lesson Plan Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.
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Other

Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Expository Writing and the Civil War

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan is designed to help students strengthen their research and writing skills, while learning more about the Civil War, as they produce an expository paragraph. Students will glean information from an article about the...

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