What kinds of evidence best support the points you make in a paper? Where can you find the evidence you need? This handout answers all these questions and more, including the difference between primary and secondary sources. You'll also...

Contains plans for lessons that ask students to write journal entries about texts they have read by responding to open-ended questions. The book "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater is used as an example. In addition to objectives...

Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...

This page offers an annotated list of useful online resources including the names of the websites, the associated publishers or providers, URLs to the home pages for the websites, and summaries that describe the websites' content and...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a writing prompt. Students will write about the topic as a means of reflecting on their manners.