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Scholastic

Scholastic: Write It: Memoir

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Essay Writing Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
All you want to know about writing essays, from prewriting to editing. Click on the tip-o-matic and find tips on anything dealing with grammar or writing.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A very useful lesson that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Global Revisions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on how to do global revisions, reading and rereading drafts for content and quality, before editing for errors.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising & Editing: Understanding Rubrics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Watch two videos and download content to learn more about using rubrics for both evaluation and instruction in the classroom.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Expression of Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
On the SAT Writing and Language Test, you will encounter a variety of questions that will ask you to revise and edit passages in different ways. This article gives tips and details about the expression of ideas part of the writing and...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Great site! Offers student tons of confusables! Also offers quizzes and a pull-down menu for one "confusable" at a time. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2, L.11-12.2b Spelling, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Shifts in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Five areas to edit for shifts in writing: Consistent Point of View, Consistent Verb Tenses, Verbs Consistent in Mood and Voice, Shifts from Indirect to Direct Questions/Quotations, and Shifts from British to American English. Each area...
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Caro Clarke

Rewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the 17th article in a series that helps the new fiction author with the final step--revision.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
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Other

Dena Harrison: Narrative Self Editing Questions [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A printable PDF providing eleven questions young writers can ask themselves as they edit their narrative pieces.
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Other

Write Source: Writing Topics

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
The best way to write is to write! Here are a variety of writing prompts for grades 1-12. A valuable resource.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Global Editing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the concept of global editing. Students learn to edit for big picture ideas like organization, strategy, and effectiveness. W.9-10.5 Writing Process, W.11-12.5 Writing Process
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the need to revise writing to remove unnecessary words and phrases to produce clear, concise writing. Examples are provided.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writer's Notebook: A Pentalogue: 5 Personal Beliefs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This instructional activity has students create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality...
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W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton&company:the Writing Process: Conventions That Can Cause Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click through lessons on conventions that can cause problems in an essay including tenses, titles, and names. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing Process Intro

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Subtitled, You are what you eat, this flipchart correlates the steps in the writing process to the steps involved in baking a cake emphasizing the importance of not leaving anything out. You may even...
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Harvard University

Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Powers of Writing

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource outlines and defines the POWERS model for good writing.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Grammar Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a grammar handbook with links to grammar rules for the parts of speech, punctuation marks, mechanics, sentence style and clarity, composition, academic writing, organization and development, revising and editing, and research and...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on support for a claim. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Student's Perspective on Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eli tells us what it is like to have dysgraphia. Regina Richards, a well-known expert on dysgraphia (and Eli's mom), explains how to help children who struggle with the challenges Eli describes. Practical techniques discussed include...

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