College Board
Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How to Approach Sentence and Paragraph Sequence Questions
Tips for tackling the questions on the SAT Writing and Language Test that ask you to improve the order of sentences in a paragraph or paragraphs in a passage.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing
This lesson focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: English Mentor: How to Write a Career Research Paper
This structural design will guide learners in writing a career research paper from start to finish. They will gather information; cite sources MLA style; develop a thesis statement, outline, and paragraphs; and create a research paper...
Other
Book Rags: Articles: How to Write a Compare/contrast Essay
Learn about two different ways to organize a compare and contrast essay and how each way looks in a paragraph breakdown.
Other
Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
Organization for Community Networks
Organization for Community Network: Writing Successful Paragraphs
How can you learn to write a successful paragraph? This site features a lesson plan to help your students sharpen their writing skills.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Picture Book Writing Lesson: Pros, Cons, and Interesting Hooks
Inspired by the picture book How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long, an enthusiastic tale that explores the pros and cons of being a pirate, young scholars will research an interesting job and prepare to write about it. While researching,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Identifying Thesis Statements
This instructional activity focuses on identifying thesis statements including explicit and implicit thesis statements, "How to Identify the Thesis Statement" (video), topic sentences, paragraph parts graphic, and a self-check activity.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: Essay Conclusions
Explains the purpose of the conclusion and how it relates to the thesis and introduction of the essay.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: I Learned It Online
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. Students will be learning about a topic online and...
Harvard University
Harvard University: Beginning the Academic Essay
This resource explains how to write an essay. Provides information regarding length, order, and opening strategies. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org
Department of Defense
Do Dea: What Is a Myth?
Learn about myths from around the world in this self-guided unit while also learning how to construct a compare and contrast essay. Included are characteristics of creation myths, videos about Chinese and Egyptian myths, and a step by...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fact vs. Opinion
This activity is a hands-on way for students to learn how to discern between fact and opinion. This is an important skill for citizenship in that citizens should be informed about what is happening in their communities and should take...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Shakespearean Comedy
Dr. Raphael Lyne questions the nature of Shakespeare's comedy. Useful for students studying any of Shakespeare's comedies, but particularly 'As You Like It.' Extracts from this article can usefully be used to initiate a classroom...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Shakespeare's School
An article suitable for a range of ages discussing Shakespeare's education, and how it may have influenced his plays. Extracts from this article can usefully be used to initiate a classroom discussion. Student scan also seek to use the...