Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Power of Line Break; The Power of Perspective

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read the poem "Man and Wife" and then write their own poem that uses two perspectives.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture This

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine their life experiences as well as their classmates when they share their heritage or an important event from their past through writing as an extension of an Orientation.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Feature Stories

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are taught the basics of writing a feature story. They choose a topic for research. Students use the library and internet research skills to investigate their topic. They proofread their own writing or the writing of others,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

So It Goes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider how events, accomplishments, and beliefs shaped Kurt Vonnegut's body of work by creating one-pagers. They examine a quotation by Kurt Vonnegut and consider how they might alter it to reflect their own views. Students...
Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links: Revise Your Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this writing revision worksheet, students read seven different ways in which they can revise their writing. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Map Work: Using the Index and Grid References

For Students 4th - 5th
In this maps worksheet, students use the Oxford First Atlas to answer 20 questions about cities in Great Britain. Students will need to use the index and grid references to locate cities or countries.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Rewriting Nominalizations."
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Practice rewriting each of these twelve sentences in a more clear and concise manner. Check each sentence against the answer provided to see how well they match up.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Writer's Choice: Revising Sentence Fragments

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An exercise providing five sentence fragments that students are asked to revise and rewrite by adding a subject or a predicate. Students can check their answers when finished, and possible answer choices are provided.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
Activity
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Comma's Worksheet (Coordinate Adjectives Part 1)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this worksheet to practice rewriting sentences to separate coordinating adjectives with a comma.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Colons Effectively Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Interactive writing exercises. Click on "The sentence, please!" and a sentence will appear in the top text-area. Correct the sentence as needed by adding, removing, or moving the colon and rewriting as needed. Then click on "Grammar's...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Faulty Pronoun References Exercise 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Faulty Pronoun References by rewriting the sentences correcting the faulty pronoun references and combining sentences as needed. (Title and directions are incorrect.)
Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Exercise 6: Pronoun Reference

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Rewrite five sentences so that the pronouns agree with the nouns they replace.