Handout
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Children's Book Titles to Teach Traits [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A list of children's book titles and authors that offer good examples for students to follow when learning to write both narrative and expository texts. Being arranged according to the six traits of good writing makes it easy to find the...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Informational Text: Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit is designed to teach learners about research writing. The lessons follow the format of Writer's Workshop. Many of the lessons provide a formula for students to follow while constructing their essays to ensure struggling readers...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Interpretive Response: Thesis in an Interpretive Response

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write a strong thesis statement in four mini-lessons: Introduction, A Thesis Should Be Debatable, A Thesis Should Be...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction to the Research Process

For Teachers 1st Standards
In this scaffolded instructional activity, 1st graders will independently gather information about elephants and then compile this information with their peers. This instructional activity is part of a unit that will culminate with an...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Formal Writing Across the Content Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explores instructional practices for incorporating formal writing into English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.d
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.2b: Develop the Topic With Facts, Definitions, and Details

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.