Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: #7: Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer
Peer response helps students learn how to give constructive feedback to others, an important life skill. "Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer" visits the classrooms of three teachers-fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde, seventh-grade teacher...
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Guide to Desktop Publishing
This resource provides information about the process of desktop publishing, including the principles of layout and design.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Choosing and Narrowing a Topic to Write About (For Research Papers)
This tutorial focuses on choosing a topic for research and then narrowing it down to a workable thesis statement. It starts with information about choosing a topic and the 3 steps involved and then provides 3 steps to narrowing the...
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton & Company: The Writing Process: Revising
Information about the process of revision including three steps to keep in mind: play the role of the reader, think in terms of strength and weakness, and take advantage of computer capabilities. Use the links on the right for other...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Cuneiform and the Invention of Writing
Article discussing early forms of writing in the Ancient Near East. Includes links to additional information.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
A 7-instructional activity unit where middle schoolers critically analyze how a film adaptation portrays a novel to see what impact it had on the retell of the story. They then design a movie DVD cover and write a DVD insert based on...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Expository Escapade: Detective's Handbook
Working on higher-level thinking skills with your readers is made easier with this lesson. You will have your learners connect with and analyze a mystery story at their grade-appropriate level. Lesson plan, printable worksheets, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Audience, Purpose, Language in Electronic Messages
Lesson plan considers changes in writing style since the inception of e-mail and text messaging.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources
This lesson helps elementary students identify the important components of web site evaluation. It includes a website evaluation question sheet.
Other
Be Succinct! Writing for the Web
This article gives helpful information on how to write effectively for the web. Gives information on short texts, scannability, and hypertext structure.
Colorado State University
Writing@csu Guide: Understanding Writing Situations
In this guide, you can learn more about the situations in which writers and readers find themselves and the physical, social, cultural, and historical contexts that shape them. Click on each of the links on the right to learn about the...
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Introduction: Writing Memos
This resource includes information on the definition, purpose, audience, format, and types of memos.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Research Paper: Research Techniques
This site presents writers with information about appropriate resources to use when writing research papers and useful tips on how to find these resources. Students can read through a vocabulary section to learn the definitions of common...
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton: Writing About Literature: Citation and Documentation
Introductory information about the importance of documentation and types of citations.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
Contains plans for two lessons on locating supporting details that are part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like determining the most important information, using key words to identify relevant...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Researching Information: Comparing Electronic and Print Texts
This lesson allows students to compare and contrast print text structure with that of an online site. Students work together and use worksheets in comprehending the informational text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research...
Other
Wheeling Jesuit University: How to Write a Cause Effect Essay [Pdf]
This writing lab explains the terms "cause" and "effect" and how to write cause-effect essays.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Meaning: Inside Information
A lesson plan in which students create flip books by defining a word, writing a sentence, and giving examples. Materials are included.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Accentuating the Positives in Business Letters
Online resource from Purdue on business and technical writing. Details how to write positively through embedded position and effective use of space.
EL Education
El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...
Other
Keys to Literacy: How to Write a Summary
Learn the seven steps to writing a summary of an informational text. Includes a summary template and completed examples.
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Precise Vocabulary
A short explanation of the importance of using precise word choice in writing and using context clues to help you understand the meaning of precise words when reading. Click on Model to for an example with explanation and then click on...
University of Arizona
Pulse: Industrialization, Chemicals and Human Health
While students gain an understand of basic environmental toxicology, they explore the health impacts of industrialization on society in these lessons. This is a cross curricular unit that addresses standards for eleventh grade in math,...
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