Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Writing a Proof: Direct Euclidean Proofs
This site is a look into the world of geometric proofs. You'll learn what a proof is and about the different types of proofs. Try the practice page to check your understanding. Teachers can check out the teacher resources for lesson and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Logic in Paragraphs
This instructional activity focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.
TES Global
Tes: Writing Task Sheets
[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.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity
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....
ACT360 Media
Act Den: Writing Den
Need some extra help in spelling, grammar, and writing? Search no further. The writing den gives great tips for sentence structure and even on writing essays. A lot of great information for language arts students and teachers.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Key Sentences
This lesson focuses on effective paragraph construction especially topic sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing Prepositions
This preposition practice activity provides a paragraph from a Hemingway short story. Students click on all of the prepositions used in prepositional phrases in the story. These words will appear in a box below. When finished they can...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Comma Usage
In this comma quiz, students read each of two paragraphs and insert necessary commas. When finished with both paragraphs, they click "Explanations" to see the correct comma placements. Java is required. Links are also provided to "Guide...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz in Punctuation
In this interactive grammar quiz, students are asked to read a paragraph and insert the correct punctuation, capitalization, and corrected spellings. When finished, they click on "Grammar's Version" for the corrected paragraph with...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using Science in an Inquiry Study
A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Grade 7: Practice Proofreading
In this exercise, students are to read a paragraph about Emily Dickinson, find the 5 misspelled words, and type them correctly in the boxes provided. Java is required.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Basic Level Paraphrase and Summary Writing
Practice paraphrasing sentences and summarizing short paragraphs.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of a Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers all of the areas of a paragraph including topic sentence, supporting sentences, and clincher sentence. Different kinds of supporting details are explained and students can practice...
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Glenco: Writer's Choice: Grade 7:grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Two interactive exercises where students retype three short paragraphs while making corrections in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage. When finished, answers can be displayed so students can check the accuracy of...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Tense Consistency Exercise 4
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides examples of verb tense consistency. This site demonstrates how different authors control verb tense shifts in the context of paragraphs.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Sentence Structure
This is a non-graded sentence structure practice in which students are asked to copy a blank paragraph with punctuation provided then write sentences to fit the punctuation.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Glenco: Writer's Choice: Grade 8: Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Two interactive exercises where students retype three short paragraphs while making corrections in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage. When finished, answers can be displayed so students can check the accuracy of...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lesson: Get the Idea
Read through a lesson about main ideas and supporting details to understand their importance. Practice choosing the main idea of three nonfiction paragraphs. Features practice activities to enhance learning.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Intermediate Level Paraphrase Exercises
Practice paraphrasing sentences and summarizing short paragraphs.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea
This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...