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,...

Resources for helping students to write historical essays. Includes a movie trailer to demonstrate the traits of a good introduction, tips for writing a paragraph, tips for formal writing, and guidelines for citing sources.

This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides tips to writing a strong conclusion to an essay. The article discusses incorporating an anecdote, a basic summary, a startling summary, famous ideas, and/or hints to...

This instructional activity 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...

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.

This site offers a brief description and an example of a paragraph proof. And remember, "there is never just one way of stating a proof," so others are mentioned as well.

This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...

Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...

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...

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...

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...

Inspired by the interactive plot ideas here, writers will create an original three-paragraph adventure story. First, each writer will create an original adventurer. Next, each writer will place the adventurer in a brief, organized...

This is a PDF of a persuasive writing assignment for the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It asks the students to watch a linked video clip of the closing argument by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and apply...

After research in the Alabama Virtual Library, students will write a paragraph essay and use an online citation utility to create bibliographic citations for an online encyclopedia, an online magazine, and a print resource. Copying and...

Students will write a three-paragraph essay explaining the steps necessary to follow a recipe and then present and serve the recipe to their classmates.

This page gives a quick, but thorough look at a few good ways to organize a piece of writing.

This is a sample writing placement test narrative essay and a list of questions students should ask themselves about their writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource includes a collection of ten different task sheets for independent work on particular writing skills. Each worksheet provides practice for one aspect that will help improve student writing.

SWBAT collaborate in writing step by step directions for writing an informational paragraph.

A screencast lesson defining a conclusion and discussing how to write an effective conclusion. Students learn the traditional conclusion format as well as other formats that may better fit a writer's topic and purpose. Includes a section...

This resource presents an overview of a textbook-reading method called SQRW, survey, question, read, and write, with a paragraph of text describing each step.

The basic thesis/support pattern promotes clear, systematic thinking on a single subject and can, therefore, be helpful whenever you want to set forth ideas and facts in an efficient, orderly way.

In writing and reading organization is the key to a reader's understanding. A great site for those of you who are looking for some further explanation of organization in writing. There is instruction, an example text, and specific...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Middle schoolers will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.