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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition: Types of Writing Instruction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the four types of writing: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive including definition and characteristics of each and an interactive activity over they types. It also provides links to more information...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Need help with doing a descriptive paper or personal narrative? Need a writing lesson plan? Meet Virginia Hamilton and follow her step-by-step guide to writing. When done, you are eligible for a certificate signed by this author.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This page gives students specific guidelines & tips for a descriptive writing assignment. Students can publish descriptive writing here, as well. A thorough teacher's guide to descriptive writing is also provided.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Types of Writing: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on expository writing including definition and characteristics. It provides links to the Discovery Education video: "An Unsinkable Essay," "Expository Essays," "What is Expository Writing?" "Types of Informative...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Types of Writing: Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is a review of the unit on types of writing including purpose, audience, tone, the writing process, the four types of writing, and sentence fragments and run-ons. A quiz is provided.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Types of Writing: Expository and Persuasive

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces two types of writing: expository and persuasive. It defines and provides examples of each kind. It offers links to MLA Formatting and Style Guide and sample papers of opinion and exository essays.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Comp: Types of Writing: The Writing Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the writing process including understanding purpose, audience, and tone and the parts of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing, Reading, and Understanding Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: What Is Descriptive Writing?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on what descriptive writing including defining it and discussing the characteristics. It includes links to several websites about descriptive writing including the Discovery Education Video: "Literature for Children:...
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Other

Sharpening Your Writing Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Literature and Composition: Descriptive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on descriptive writing including discussing what it is and the chararacteristics. It provides links to the web articles: "How to Write a Descriptive Essay," "5 Model Descriptive Paragraphs," "MLA Formatting and Style...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Literary Text With an Engaging Story Line

For Students 8th
You will learn how to write an imaginative story that sustains reader interest and includes well-paced action, an engaging story line, and a believable setting.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Types

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 10 question quiz asks students to read sentences and label them as to type by selecting from options given. There are review links given to study before taking the quiz if desired; it is scored and feedback is provided when...
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Other

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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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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center Tips & Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The documents and videos collected here touch on most aspects of good academci writing, and all aspects of the writing process. Students can choose from the many topics to address the specific skill or concept they need to master.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text That Develops Interesting Characters

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
A learning module that teaches students how to write an literary text with good characterization in four lessons: Introduction, Two Types of Characterization and Two Types of Characters, Choosing Your Characters, and Your Turn.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Engineering: Types of Documents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers links to types of documents used to communicate information in the workplace. They include short reports, proposals, memos, case studies, and lab reports.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Editing for Pronoun Reference and Agreement: English Iii Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on pronoun reference and agreement; it also provides an excellent overview of the types of pronouns with practice exercises.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write an organized expository text in five lessons: Introduction, The Type of Burger: The Controlling Idea, Toppings: The...
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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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Writing and Language Test: Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An overview of the SAT Writing and Language Test. Each Writing and Language Test consists of four passages with 11 questions each. You will have 35 minutes to complete the Writing and Language Test.

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