Worksheet
Curated OER

Ratiocination

For Students 9th - 12th
Writers use the four steps outlined here to edit their own or a peer’s paper. Using different colors of highlighters, editors note “to be” verbs, examine the length of sentences, box the first word in every sentence, and mark instances...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nellie Bly's Newspaper Club: Introducing the Science of Writing

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students evaluate a video about Nellie Bly, a famous reporter from the 19th century. They consider what makes a high-interest news article, write an essay in pairs and present it a literary tea.
Activity
Curated OER

The Metamorphosis: Problematic Situation

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Are you enjoying the use of all five senses? Imagine that you have to lose one of them; you can choose which one, but it's gone forever. Work through a lesson based on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis that asks class...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Persuasion and Parallel Structure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Discuss the definition of parallel structure with your high school class. In small groups, they read a section of "The Declaration of Independence" to identify examples of parallel structure. Each learner writes an essay explaining the...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Give It All You’ve Got!: Challenge Activities (Theme 2)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Explore ways to make research and writing more interesting. The first in a series of three challenge activities designed to accompany Theme 2: Give It All You've Got involve creating sports cards, designing cereal boxes, and using other...
Unit Plan
Lerner Publishing

Teaching Folklore

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Wonderful worksheets and activities complementing six sequential lessons are what you'll find in this unit on folklore. Pupils create folktales using literary devices and included story starters, compare and contrast different...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Basic Grammatical Punctuation

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson plan, Basic Grammatical Punctuation, 4th graders write an imaginary tale using correct punctuation. Students explore how use proper punctuation when writing. Students practice using correct punctuation while creating...
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar and usage learning exercise, middle schoolers examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar and usage activity, middle schoolers examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #4

For Students 5th - 7th
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision using the rules of standard formal English for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #3

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar and usage activity, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #4

For Students 7th - 9th
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, learners examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 1

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar and usage instructional activity, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Editorial Writing as a Catalyst for Discussion of Important Issues

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students decide which issues are most important to their student body and work in cooperative learning groups to write editorials. In this editorial writing lesson, students brainstorm a list of the most important issues and bring...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Giving and Taking Directions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write set of written directions from their craft area in either chart or paragraph form, and give the directions orally to a third party who will listen to the directions and complete the task.
PPT
Orange County Schools

Piggybook

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Summarizing text is a balancing act between being brief but thorough. You need to be short and to the point, but also cover all the important details, a task that presents a challenge for many young learners. In this lesson based on the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Humorous Story Featuring Clowns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a funny story about clowns. In this humorous story writing instructional activity, students determine how to develop a setting, use clowns as characters, and how to write a humorous story with a happy ending. They follow...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Is Perception Reality? Writing Paradoxes in Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Explore the paradox of the universe - or, at least, of popular music - with this lesson. Using the songs "Inaudible Melodies" by Jack Johnson and "She" by Green Day, your class will complete a graphic organizer to help them understand...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 2, Unit 2, Lesson 12

For Teachers 9th Standards
Ninth graders demonstrate their understanding of a central idea in Oedipus the King with a mid-unit writing assessment. Writers formulate a claim about the connection between prophecy and Oedipus's actions and craft an in-class essay...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 3: Unit 3, Lesson 9

For Teachers 10th Standards
Let's join together and make a sentence. Scholars take the next step in revising their argumentative essays by combining independent clauses to make complex sentences. Writers use a Colon and Semicolon Handout to practice different ways...
Printables
Curated OER

Classroom Learning Activity Rubric

For Teachers K - 12th
Are you effectively integrating technology into your classroom activities? Based on the SAMR model, here is a rubric that will help you consider important standards by which you can measure your instructional practice, such...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing a Newspaper-Style Article

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your secondary reader/writers assess texts by studying press releases from Statistics Canada and drafting articles based on them. They then compare the press release, their own articles, and actual news stories they find online. I'd...

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