Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Strategies for Revising and Editing on Computers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehensive discussion on how to edit material on computers. Explains how to perform functions in 2 general areas: spell check and search & replace. Also explains difference between doing this "on paper" and on computer. W.11-12.6...
Handout
Boise State University

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
eBook
Other

3 D Issues: Revising & Editing by Les Parsons Intro Section

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Intro section (front material, Chapter 1, etc.) of the book Revising & Editing by Les Parsons.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Writing a Reverse Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on writing a reverse outline as a post writing strategy for assessing your paper for weak or missing aspects. It explains how to create the outline using a rubric if available and provides a skeletal example...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3 (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will label sentences and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to practice recognizing sentences that need to be revised to add variety and revising sentences by using additions and sentence combining.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Exam Skills

For Students 6th - 8th
The National 5 English course is assessed on writing, a spoken language assessment and a final exam in addition to revision and coursework throughout the year. Structuring your answers and understanding the marking can help you get the...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising rhetorical devices and transitions in an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)

For Students 9th Standards
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
Activity
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reading to Write

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Since students often need to write about what they read, this site offers strategies to use while reading that will make the writing much easier. These include not only reading strategies but note-taking and planning strategies as well.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary in Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn revision strategies you can use to polish your essay's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. It also includes practice exercises.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A very useful lesson that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
Activity
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on the student learning how to write strong persuasive essays. Strategies are provided to help the student complete a persuasive writing assignment.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary (English Iii Research)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn revision strategies you can use to polish your research paper's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teaching Writing to Diverse Student Populations

For Teachers K - 1st
Writing is a complex operation requiring knowledge of text structure, syntax, vocabulary, and topic, and sensitivity to audience needs; so it is not surprising that many teens find writing challenging. This article identifies the...