Activity
College Board

The Departure

For Teachers 8th Standards
Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...
Article
Caro Clarke

Writing Advice: Don't Get It Right the First Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How much of your novel have you written? Do you keep starting it and never finishing it? Learn the answers to these questions in this novel-writing advice piece.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Most Nutritious Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write a persuasive speech for the Fruit or Vegetable of the Year Award. Nutrition information should be incorporated into this cross-curricular lesson.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Fiction Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource discusses some terms and techniques that are useful to the beginning and intermediate fiction writer, and to instructors who are teaching fiction at these levels. W.11-12.3a Narratives
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text, students will write...
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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.
Activity
Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Description: What's It For?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the twelfth article in a series that is designed to help the new novel writer. This article focuses on how to effectively use descriptions in any writing.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Season Mandala

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record facts about the...
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Other

Fiction teachers.com: How to Write a Mini Mystery

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.
Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Poetry Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.
Article
Caro Clarke

Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
Article
Caro Clarke

Not Stopping the Reader: How to Avoid Stumbling Blocks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eighth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article looks at how the author can avoid creating stumbling blocks that disrupt the flow of the novel.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using the Prediction Strategy to Set Purposes for Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for three lessons that teach a reading comprehension technique called the prediction strategy, where students predict what will happen in a story before reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Reading Comprehension and Classroom Discussions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...
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Other

Elated Communications: Perl and Cgi Scripting

For Students 9th - 10th
This series of tutorials, teaches you how to write CGI scripts such as form mailers and guestbooks, using the popular Perl scripting language.
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Other

Mtsu: Memory Principles & Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore memory principles and strategies. Before you go to this site, list the ways you usually try to remember things. Write these strategies down (share with someone else if possible). Once you have written your strategies down, take a...
Website
Other

Ten Rhetoric of War Writing Projects

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Created by a teacher responding to the events in Kosovo, this list is a great start for a media literacy class project. Good discussion-starting questions are included with each item on the list. Requires some independent research to...
Website
PBS

Pbs: Interactive Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What is interactive poetry? Use this website to learn more about this form of poetry.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Persuasive Strategies and Tuck Everlasting

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This lesson plan is a persuasive strategy lesson plan for Tuck Everlasting. It allows the student to incorporate technology in the development of an original thirty-second commercial.
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Resolving Conflicts

For Teachers K - 1st
Activities, writing prompts, and discussion questions all focused on teaching children about conflict resolution.
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Informalities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of style techniques (with examples) used to create an informal tone in a written piece.
Activity
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Multi Media Poetry Notebook Project [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a three-page PDF Multi--Media Poetry Notebook Project assignment with a rubric. Students will complete a virtual poetry notebook with three poems by different poets, two original poems, and a glossary of poetic terms. Students...

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