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Unit Plan
Trinity University

Who Am I? Using Personal Narrative to Reflect on Identity

For Teachers 6th Standards
Who am I? Pupils work to answer this question through a unit that explores personal narratives and identity. Exit tickets for activities that examine different poems, short stories, and autobiographical writing serve as prewriting for...
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University of North Carolina

Procrastination

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Inevitably, whenever you give an assignment, at least one person won't start until the last minute. As the 13th handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series explains, procrastination sometimes brings consequences. It breaks down...
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Oklahoma State Department of Education

Narrative Prompt

For Students 8th Standards
Reading about history is nothing like experiencing it firsthand. Encourage your eighth graders to do the next best thing with a historical narrative prompt, in which they describe the experience of a first-time traveler on the...
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Teach Hub

New Year’s Resolution Classroom Activity

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Create a sense of accountability among scholars with a lesson that focuses on making and keeping New Year's resolutions. Writers compose a five paragraph essay focused on three resolutions—promises to self improvement, to their family,...
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Worksheet
Incentive Publications

Building Proofreading Skills

For Students 3rd - 6th
Designed to build proofreading skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and language usage, as well as proofreading for clarity, transition, and order, this workbook is packed with activities for all kinds of writing.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 6

For Teachers 9th Standards
As part of a mid-unit assessment, class members exchange their draft of a multi-paragraph essay with a classmate, review their partner's writing using the provided text analysis rubric, and evaluate the strength of evidence, the...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Writing Effective Dialogue

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Spend a productive hour in the classroom with this tutorial where junior high writers discover how to create snappy dialogue. The learning begins with an analysis of sample writing and discussion on the effectiveness of each piece. The...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Do Writers Do?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils learn about honing their writing through editing. They write the beginning of a story, paying attention to vocabulary and detail. Then they split into groups of two to peer edit. After discussing ways they can improve their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Writing Process

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Show your young researchers how to find information, brainstorm a topic, map or outline their own stories, and create rough drafts. This lesson also shows learners how to peer edit, conference with the teacher, and write their final...
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Lesson Plan
Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Researching and Writing

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Designed for teachers, this resource identifies problems learners face when attempting a research project and approaches instructors can use to help their class members overcome these obstacles. Suggestions are included for how to help...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Novelettes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice their writing techniques by creating a novelette.  In this creating writing lesson, students brainstorm and decide on a topic they would like to expand upon in order to create their own novelette.  Students work in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communicating about Our World through Informal Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review their writing for repetition of words at the beginning of the sentence.  In this informal writing lesson, 5th graders share examples of sentence beginnings.  Students use a thesaurus to find antonyms and synonyms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Student create descriptive writing pieces through the use of a picture book.  In this descriptive writing lesson, students investigate images to emphasize the details in their writing.
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Curated OER

It's a Secret! Writing Prompt

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students write the ending to <i>It's a Secret</i> by John Burningham.  In this creative writing activity, students are read the first two pages of <i>It's a Secret</i> and they continue writing what they think the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Editing to Eliminate Fragments

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice their writing skills. In this writing revision lesson, students read the provided writing samples and make corrections to the sentence fragments that are evident in each of them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Awesome Spelling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students are introduced to spelling words as a whole class by viewing a PowerPoint. They spell the word, repeat and spell the word again as a whole class. Pupils create a sentence orally using the list of words. Students work in small...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

PhotoStory 3 Lesson Plan

For Teachers 7th - 8th
For this lesson, PhotoStory 3, students create a story board of an original poem through the use of PhotoStory 3 presentation. Students write a poem and use it to develop their storyboard. Students publish and share their storyboard. ...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Compound Sentences

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write sentences that have the same topic using a comma and and, as well as practice writing new compound sentences by combining five pairs of sentences on paper. They then work in pairs and take turns writing simple...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Writing Thank-You Notes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Students write thank-you notes using the writing process. They draft, revise, edit, and publish their thank-you notes and use a computer to view examples of thank-you notes and insert graphics into their own published thank-you notes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing with Strong Verbs

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use strong verbs in their writing. In this verbs in writing lesson, students locate the verbs in their writing, then identify the verbs that are weak and make revisions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Letters and Notes

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students choose one of seven topics to write about. Students are reminded to think about purpose, structure, audience, and content. Students complete a web, revise, and proof read their writing.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing: Peer Revision

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students drill and practice writing/reading skills through the peer-editing process while writing an autobiography. They become more comfortable sharing their writings with others, offering feedback comments and encourage others to work...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Revive, Contemplate, Integrate

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students recognize flags as a symbol through writing and imagery. In this artifact lesson, students investigate Tibetan prayer flags and their significance. Students create personal prayer flags and write about their life experience of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Surviving AIDS

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Enhance your middle and high schoolers' research skills with this lesson plan. After viewing a video clip about HIV and AIDS, high schoolers identify the facts and issues surrounding the disease. They work together to create a newspaper...

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