Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Starting the Writing Process
Getting started on a paper or story always seems to be the greatest obstacle. Learn some simple prewriting strategies to overcome this common problem. Use the links on the left to work through each step of the writing process. W.9-10.5...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Writing Process: Brainstorming
This instructional activity will be used to introduce the writing process. Students will learn about the first step, brainstorming, through webbing activities. Students will also view other students' work on the Internet. Students will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process
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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Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reorganizing Drafts
One step you might want to take in revising a draft is to examine the organization of your paper and decide if and how the organization needs to be adjusted. This handout offers five strategies for examining and reorganizing your draft....
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Drafting
This lesson focuses on drafting including making an outline and writing a draft from it, the crappy first draft, writing, revising, rewriting, and time management. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sheldon the Sharing Sheep
A critical part of the writing process, that tends to be overlooked, is being comfortable sharing your writing with others. An easy way for students to share their writing is by creating a classroom book. In this lesson, students take...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Academic and Professional Writing
The section on Common Types of Writing Assignments is a particularly helpful piece of this site. Learn how to approach a wide variety of writing tasks from lab reports to literary reviews. Then use the rest of the site to learn how to...
Harvard University
Harvard College Writing Center: Developing a Thesis
Superbly written explanation of thesis development. Use the links on the right to work through the writing process.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Zooming in on a Prompt About Friendship
Take your students step by step through the revision process of with this prompt and guide.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Sorcerer's Binocular Revision
Take students through the revision process with this prompt and lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Science Writing With Author Lois Ehlert
This is an interdisciplinary language development unit addressing science and language arts standards designed for English Language Learners. In the week-long unit students will learn the life cycle of plants and discuss various uses for...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Democratic Processes
In this activity, students write informative/explanatory texts describing various aspects of the political process in the United States. This self-paced module is aligned to College and Career Ready Standards for Literacy in Social...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Prewriting
This lesson focuses on prewriting including the purpose and characteristics of prewriting, prewriting strategies, the rhetorical context, and developing a working thesis statement. It also includes a slide show about author, audience,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Selecting a Topic
This instructional activity focuses on selecting a writing topic including your approach to the assignment, understanding the assignment, purpose of the assignment, strategies for finding a topic, and how to narrow a topic to fit the...
Harold D. Underdown
The Purple Crayon: The Writing & Publishing Process
Follow Amy Timberlake's steps as she tells about how she wrote the picture book "The Dirty Cowboy." She discusses ideas, drafts, revisions, and publication, and gives helpful hints to aspiring writers along the way.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Real Survival Skills
Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Revise and Revisit: Butterflies
Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Let's Write About the American Flag
Young scholars will brainstorm adjectives to describe the American Flag and will write two descriptive sentences for homework. Students will also create star art to accompany their writing to show the relationship between words and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: And the Author Is...using Digital Tools for Writing
Empower students to recognize that they are thinkers and writers! They will collaborate on a writing piece to brainstorm, organize and publish ideas with a digital tool. This lesson highlights different website creations as examples of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson
In this activity, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and analyze...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages
A lesson plan made for young scholars to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and...
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Brain dance.com: Three Step Creative Writing Process
This process seems very involved, but there are good ideas for getting started on your creative writing if you're stuck at the brainstorming stage.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Keeping the Writing Going
A list of seven writing ideas designed to inspire students to continue writing in Writers Workshop even after they have finished working on a specific piece.
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