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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This lesson is a final step towards supporting students to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
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Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: Historical Writing: Writing Resources for Students

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Other

Math Lab: How to Write a Good Proof

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Other

Grade 1 Informative Writing Lessons

For Teachers 1st Standards
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...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: What Is a Myth?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Lamb to the Slaughter Persuasive Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Cite Online Resources

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: It's a Process. Day 1 of 5

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
SWBAT collaborate in writing step by step directions for writing an informational paragraph.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Other

Education Atlas: Study Skills: A Strategy for Reading Textbooks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Other

Roane State Community College: Online Writing Lab (Owl): Creating Outlines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Outlining isn't always an A-B-C, 1-2-3 exercise. Try this more informal system of outlining to organize your paragraphs and entire paper. This page also discusses writing introductions and conclusions.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College: Development of Analysis on the Continent

For Students 9th - 10th
This page of brief biographies taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," includes a paragraph on the life and work of Gabriel Cramer of "Cramer's Rule," fame.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Labor Day Address:barack Obama Speech [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"Labor Day Address: Barack Obama Speech" is a one page, campaign speech by Barack Obama given on August 24, 2008, in Billings, Montana. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Sample Expository Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is an example of a well-written expository essay from the University of Victoria. Gives excellent tips for students, such as organization, paragraph development, and support. W.9-10.2a Intro/org/graphics
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Other

Critical Reading: Three Ways to Read and Discuss Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.

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