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CMS Education

My Pen Pal

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Written in two different languages, this resource offers pupils the opportunity to practice both their English and their Hebrew skills. Young writers respond to a couple of questions to get their ideas flowing. They then compose a letter...
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Newseum

When the News Media Make Mistakes

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Mistakes happen. When they happen in news reporting, be it in print or on the internet, journalism ethics requires that the errors be corrected. Young journalists use an Accuracy Checklist to track how news organizations post corrections...
Unit Plan
profitt.gatech.edu

Effective Communication: Listening, Speaking, Writing, Interpreting

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed Standards
Help young learners become active listeners and strong public speakers with a set of activities that range from paraphrasing, to discussions, and self-reflection. Additionally, the lessons address social media skills and non-verbal...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1

For Teachers 9th Standards
Word choice can drastically alter the tone of a piece of writing. Ninth graders read Karen Russell's short story "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" and use textual evidence to help them analyze how word choice affects their...
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EngageNY

Grade 11 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 26

For Teachers 11th Standards
Add all of the pieces to complete the puzzle. Scholars apply their knowledge from the past 25 lessons to an end-of-unit writing assignment. Pupils write multi-paragraph essays comparing the author's point of view and use of rhetoric in...
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Energy for Keeps

The Energy Times

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Extra! Extra! Read all about past and present energy use in a classroom-made historical newspaper. Useful as a cross-curricular assignment between science, history, and language arts, the project is sure to get young journalists...
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Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford

Resume Writing Basics Workshop

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
What factors help create compelling resumes? Using a professional resource, scholars complete graphic organizers to describe the sections of a resume. They also complete checklists to identify which items not to include in their resumes....
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EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 1

For Teachers 10th Standards
Words stir emotions and bring out feelings. As readers listen to a letter written by Martin Luther King Jr, they stop, think about, and discuss their reactions to the words they hear. They analyze the impact of King's words. A final...
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EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 4: Unit 1, Lesson 1

For Teachers 10th Standards
Scholars evaluate E.B. White's tone in his narrative. Lessons use turn-and-talk strategies to discuss details of a personal narrative essay, respond to guided questions, and work in pairs to analyze word choice. Learners demonstrate...
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Curated OER

Let's Edit!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students in fourth grade pair up with students in second grade to edit writing convension.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Describing How to Get a Shop or Restaurant

For Students 4th - 5th
In this descriptive paragraph worksheet, students first draw a map showing how to get to a location. Students then write sentences explaining how to get to a location using directional phrases. Students then write the sentences into a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Student Writing Skills Checklist

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literacy worksheet, students use the checklist in order to complete writing projects without the stress of not fixing the details required.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

COMPARE AND CONTRAST LIFESTYLES AND TIME PERIODS

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders demonstrate the steps needed for a compare and contrast essay by writing a paper comparing and contrasting two selected pictures.
Worksheet
Curated OER

ESL Asking Questions About Family Fill in the Blank Worksheet

For Students 5th - 7th
In this ESL writing questions about families learning exercise, student fill in the blanks with questions that can be answered with the given statement. They complete 8 examples using the clip art pictures that accompany each one.
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Curated OER

Those Baffling Bibliographies!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Are you working on a research and citation unit? Have your young writers listen to a lecture on how to cite research sources correctly and how to distinguish new information that requires citing. They compile a list of works cited from...
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Curated OER

Scrambled Stories

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Character development, setting, and plot? Sounds like the makings of a good narrative story. Young authors read and analyze several narrative examples, and then they use what they know to pen an original composition. They work both in...
Unit Plan
Houston Teachers Institute

Alice in Wonderland: Nonsense and Logic in Literature

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is known for its fantastical imagery and nonsense verse. This unit plan offers a basic exploration into nonsense verse through poetry and teacher read-alouds. It incorporates activities involving...
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Curated OER

Writing: Lesson 3

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders are read the material in the boldface print inside the boxes. They study several key elements of composition and examine sentence structure using the English Language Arts Writer's Checklist. They then critique another...
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Curated OER

Letter Writing Basics

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students construct a letter about a classroom issue as a class. They then write a letter individually that requests information, file a complaint or complement, or write a letter to the editor/legislator.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Proofreading and Revising Articles for a Class Newsletter

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students submit their newsletter articles and a newsletter team proofreads them. Revisions are suggested. Writers revise their articles. Using a template from a word processing program, articles are typed in final form.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing an Information Paragraph on a Villain

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this villain worksheet, students fill out facts sheets, information planning sheets, and more to write an information paragraph on a villain. Students complete 5 activities.
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Curated OER

Encouraging Writing Through Combined Photos

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice writing skills through using photography to help create a writing prompt. They investigate how images can be used to create new ones that related to each other. This is similar to making a collage except now the images...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Practice Writing and Evaluating Conclusion Paragraphs

For Students 8th - 10th
In this writing conclusions worksheet, students practice writing and evaluating paragraphs written at the end of an experiment. They are given a hypothesis and a results sentence and they write a conclusion.
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Curated OER

Letter Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write to themselves or to known audiences, share news, explore new ideas, and record notes. They identify that holidays are days that people set aside to recognize a person or event that has made a great impression....

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