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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the structure of a list poem, learners combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Expository Writing and the Civil War

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan is designed to help students strengthen their research and writing skills, while learning more about the Civil War, as they produce an expository paragraph. Students will glean information from an article about the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How Big Was Hagrid?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will decide mathematically how large Hagrid, from the Harry Potter series, is through their reading of persuasive techniques.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Don't Eat Me Monologues

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson, students will create a 5-part (introduction, 3 ideas, conclusion) monologue incorporating persuasive techniques and strong word choice.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks students to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: To Imitate Two Nature Writers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published authors...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Start With What Isn't There

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will describe a setting, attempting to set a mood for their readers in two paragraphs. Borrowing a technique from Stephen Kramer's two-page introduction to Caves, they will begin with a paragraph that explains...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Writing Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three different lessons demonstrate how to write linear equations. The equations found from two points, slope and a point, and slope and y-intercept are all featured. The lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Selling Our Nation's Symbols on Ebay!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will write for a specific purpose in this cross-curricular lesson regarding our nation's landmarks and symbols.
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Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Lamb to the Slaughter Persuasive Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a PDF of a persuasive writing assignment for the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It asks the students to watch a linked video clip of the closing argument by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and apply...
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Grays Harbor College: Writing Essays: Four Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explores four tips for writers: "Center Your Thinking," "Organize Your Thinking," "Specify Your Thoughts," and "Present Your Thoughts Clearly." The information is presented in an easy-to-follow outline with examples given...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Poetry With Rebus and Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An excellent resource for teachers who are interested in teaching innovative poetry techniques to their elementary students. Uses proven and well-documented methods to teach poetic elements in reading and writing.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Style and Technique

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use context to figure out how to use language appropriately--formality, irony, understatement, and overstatement.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Children's Picture Book Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for eight lessons that ask students to write their own children's picture book in order to review story structure and literary techniques. Students also write book reviews of each other's work. In addition to objectives...
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Brainstorming

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This handout describes brainstorming as " taking advantage of your natural thinking processes by gathering your brain's energies into a 'storm.'" Learn how to use brainstorming techniques to gather ideas before you begin a project or to...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Writing Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three different lessons demonstrate how to write linear equations. The equations found from two points, slope and a point, and slope and y-intercept are all featured. The lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Writing Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three different lessons demonstrate how to write linear equations. The equations found from two points, slope and a point, and slope and y-intercept are all featured. The lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation...
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University of Wisconsin

Univ. Of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Guide to Close Reading for Literary Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This guide discusses how to approach analysis of a literary text, with the main focus being on the poem "Design" by Robert Frost. It explains how to examine the subject, the form, word choice or diction, and the theme. In each section,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Rolling With the Animals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After reading Duck on a Bike by David Shannon, the writer will plan an original story where an animal (other than a duck) finds itself in a human mode of transportation (other than a bike). Three other animals will react to the unusual...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Supporting Vocabulary Development With Ease

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that use Karen Hesse's book "Come On, Rain" and an instructional technique called EASE (Enunciate, Associate, Synthesize, Emphasize) to teach vocabulary. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing

For Students K - 1st Standards
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3

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