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Better Lesson: W.4.4: Produce Clear Writing to Task, Purpose, Audience

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Links to 89 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.4: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Coherence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses the importance of coherence in a composition. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.c
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Storytelling Boxes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This PIZZAZ lesson allows students the opportunity to engage in the small group task of audio-storytelling or video storytelling, after being given a shoebox filled with symbols and unique items.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Adverb Clauses Cause and Effect Relationships

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Twenty sentences where students fill in the blank with the correct adverb clause to show a cause and effect relationship. Each answer can be checked to see if it is correct.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Clear Writing: Ten Principles of Clear Statement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page features a list of ten principles that lead to writing clearly and concisely, such as avoiding unnecessary words, writing like you talk, writing to express and not to impress, and the like. It also discusses "fog indexes" to...
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...
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Other

Saint Michael's College: Semicolon and Colon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the three major uses of the semicolon and provides examples for each of the uses. Also discusses the use of the colon.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: "Sit" and "Set"

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn something about the conjugation of verbs and transitive and intransitive verbs in this discussion about the meaning of "sit" and "set." This tutorial will teach you how to use these words correctly. A brief quiz checks your...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the roles of all of the punctuation marks; it provides a video, small practices in various sections, and a punctuation self-check.
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Other

Mes English: Daily Activities Flashcards/daily Routine Flashcards

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site includes flashcards that show daily people engaging in daily routine. PowerPoints are included to supplement the flashcards that show daily routines.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analytical Paper: Key Elements: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in analytical papers. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Key Elements: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in argumentative papers. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Argumentative Papers: Key Elements."
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Time Sequences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate, through reading and writing, how words and phrases can signal time sequences.
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Other

New Brunswick Museum: The Adventure Begins: A Historical Fiction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, learners research New Brunswick in the 1800s using primary source materials and then write a historical fiction piece about a new immigrant. Click on the Word links to access the lesson materials.
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Other

New Brunswick Museum: Social Reality Portrayed Through Pictures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students use photographs from the early days of Saint John, New Brunswick to analyze its evolving social fabric, and complete a research project. Click on the Word files to access the lesson materials.
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English Zone

English Zone: Unless / Only if 1

For Students 3rd - 8th
A five-sentence exercise where students are asked to choose "unless" or "only if" to complete each sentence. Students can check their answers when finished to see which are correct and incorrect and to see a percentage score for the...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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Other

English Made in Brazil: Writing English Correctly

For Students 9th - 10th
A very useful page from English Made in Brazil designed to help Portuguese English language learners write better in English. Subject placement, objectivity, brevity, and words of transition are some of the points discussed. Great examples.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Writing Letters

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The students will learn how to form a proper letter. They will be able to remove key ideas/details from a text and apply it to their writing. They will also be able to incorporate transition and descriptive words into their writing.

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