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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching: Prewriting and Planning Personal Narratives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on prewriting and planning a personal narrative. The information can be used in all types of writing. It discusses brainstorming ideas, narrowing the focus, and developing the central idea. W.9-10.5 Writing...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Publishing Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students will experience different types of publishing in order to strengthen their motivation and cultivate pride in their work. After utilizing the writing process, students will type out their writing...
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W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company: Lit Web: The Research Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information about writing a research essay including: generating a topic, generating a thesis, research, and more.
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Savvas Learning

Prentice Hall: Proofreader's Marks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
One of the more complete lists of proofreader's marks. Includes meanings and examples of their use. Divides marks into seven categories: style of type, position, spacing, insertion and deletion, paragraphing, punctuation, and...
Interactive
Other

Umuc: Secrets of My Research Success

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 35-minute interactive tutorial models the research process via the story of Quentin, a UMUC student. It takes him through the various research process steps: understand how to locate background information on his topic by showing...
PPT
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
Article
Other

Learning at the Primary Pond: 3 Effective Strategies for Teaching Revising

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A literacy specialist shares three effective strategies for teaching students revising techniques. These include providing students with specific criteria and peer revision. Examples of resources used in a classroom lesson are pictured.
Article
Other

Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten: Launching Persuasive Writing in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Peer Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Bulleted guidelines for conducting a peer review on a draft. Emphasizes knowing the intent of the writer, controlling the content of the review, and maintaining a polite, helpful tone.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Terrible, Horrible Days

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
After reading the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, students have the chance to express the way they feel when they have a bad day. They will make personal connections as well as develop...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Come Along Daisy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in discussions about story details and write an informational piece about the events in the story "Come Along Daisy".
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: I Learned It Online

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Preparing the new generations for college and career readiness absolutely requires us to ensure our children are competent and comfortable in the use of a variety of digital tools. Young scholars will be learning about a topic online and...
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Writing About Literature (Fiction)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are instructed in a nine-step process of how to write a literary response paper that includes a thesis, strong ideas, and specific supporting details from the text. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Questions: A Focus for Planning, Researching, and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Sophia video lesson introduces how to develop good questions for a research paper. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 standards are addressed in...
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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.
Article
Harold D. Underdown

The Purple Crayon: Writing Dazzling Dialogue

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site takes you through the process of writing dialogue in fiction, demonstrating when to omit, replace, or modify your original writing. Includes several examples and gives excellent advice for young writers. W.9-10.3b Narrative...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

Ato Zteacherstuff: Report Writing in Primary Grades

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a fun, hands-on lesson from AtoZteacherstuff! Students go through a study of frogs while learning how to interpret and restate factual information.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Research Paper: Research Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents writers with information about appropriate resources to use when writing research papers and useful tips on how to find these resources. Students can read through a vocabulary section to learn the definitions of common...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Two Easy to Make Classroom Book Formats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this article, the author gives directions about how to conduct book-making projects with students. Directions for making concertina books, often referred to as accordion books, and single-section binding books are included in the...
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...
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Education.com

Education.com: W.1.6 Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lesson plans can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of using a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.
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Education.com

Education.com: w.k.5 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the skill of listening to questions and suggestions from peers to strengthen writing.
Handout
W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Elements of the Essay: Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click through an overview of how to structure an essay, including the introduction, body, and conclusion. Use the list on the right side to learn all of the elements of an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the writing in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas and...

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