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,...

Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...

We all know that the most effective way to teach reading is to start with reading. This lesson uses that approach with writing story leads.

This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...

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.

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...

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...

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...

This lesson focuses on evaluating the structure of paragraphs and revising them.

This activity focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.

This page gives a quick, but thorough look at a few good ways to organize a piece of writing.

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...

This instructional activity 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...

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.

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

[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.

This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.

This site focuses on teaching essay writing to high school students including the basic five-paragaph essay, tips for teaching essay writing, and examples of guides.

Lesson that introduces students to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.

In writing and reading organization is the key to a reader's understanding. A great site for those of you who are looking for some further explanation of organization in writing. There is instruction, an example text, and specific...

Preparing the new generations for college and career readiness absolutely requires us to ensure our children are competent and comfortable in the use of a variety of digital tools. Students will be learning about a topic online and...

This site offers a brief description and an example of a paragraph proof. And remember, "there is never just one way of stating a proof," so others are mentioned as well.

A screencast lesson defining a conclusion and discussing how to write an effective conclusion. Students learn the traditional conclusion format as well as other formats that may better fit a writer's topic and purpose. Includes a section...

The basic thesis/support pattern promotes clear, systematic thinking on a single subject and can, therefore, be helpful whenever you want to set forth ideas and facts in an efficient, orderly way.