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Sophia: Revision Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on revision techniques; it offers a video of what to look for when revising, text of 5 steps to revising using teacher notes, a PDF revision checklist, and a slideshow of other revision techniques such as reading...
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on revising using teacher comments. It discusses the advantages of teacher notes on rough drafts, how to use the notes to improve the final, examples from sections of marked student papers, editing and...
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Sophia: Revising Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial begins with a PowerPoint presentation, "What to Look for When Revising," which is followed by information about the importance of the teacher or professor's notes. It also includes a PDF revision checklist, a peer editing...
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Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper based on a teacher's comments. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes."
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Checklist

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eleven-slide presentation explaining how checklists can be used through the revision step of the writing process.
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Improving Flow

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A ten-slide presentation explaining revision strategies that focus on improving the flow of a written text.
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Barbara Greenwood's Guide to Writing for Children [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Barbara Greenwood, a Canadian author of numerous historical fiction books for children, has written this thirty-page writing guide where she explains the process she goes through in constructing a story. She covers such key topics as...
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Hong Kong Polytech: Functions in Academic Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a wealth of interactive exercises dealing mainly with the structuring of sentences in different kinds of academic writing.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to generate ideas and questions as a part of the writing process in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Writing the Persuasive Essay:...
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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing With Virginia Hamilton

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent site geared towards student writers interesting in learning how to journal. Follow Virginia Hamilton, an author, and learn her techniques from examples. Very comprehensive learning site.
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Learning at the Primary Pond: 3 Effective Strategies for Teaching Revising

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A literacy specialist shares three effective strategies for teaching students revising techniques. These include providing students with specific criteria and peer revision. Examples of resources used in a classroom lesson are pictured.
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Read Write Think: Persuasive Writing for Summer Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A good lesson, to be used during the last month of the school year, for motivating young scholars to remain faithful to reading over the summer. Uses strategies such as student-chosen books and persuasive writing techniques.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, young scholars will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
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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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Spelling (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct spelling. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Spelling (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct spelling.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Punctuation (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Punctuation: Correcting the Comma Splice (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation, including correcting the comma splice.
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Jiskha: Persuasive Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Short definitions of techniques that persuade: bandwagon, glittering generality, and more.
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Sophia: Breaking the Line: An Exercise for Revision in Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson on crafting and revising lines of poetry. Lineation and enjambment are defined and explored. A Robert Creeley poem is analyzed, and a video of his poem is presented. [1:31]
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Eliminating Excess

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper to remove extraneous information.
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Peer Feedback

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper based on peer feedback.

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