CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 4.1: Persuasive Essay
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Puzzled Over Paragraphs?
Here is an excellent list of ideas for teachers to utilize in their classroom to accompany paragraph writing skills. These creative and exciting activities will sharpen your student's writing abilities.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Better Living Through Science
This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Students will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Narrative Paragraphs
Learners learn to use a one-main idea Think-sheet for producing a narrative paragraph. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Persuasive Writing: You Are What You Eat
Students will write a persuasive essay trying to convince their audience to eat healthy. Students will use the Makes Sense Strategies to complete the instructional activity. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Expository Essay: State Trip
After researching a place/event of interest in Alabama, students write a five-paragraph essay. Students include maps and written directions to the location, describe activities and/or events associated with this location, include in this...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sentence Fragments
Sentence fragments can't stand alone, because they do not express a complete thought. Run-ons put two complete sentences together in one sentence without separating them. [0:35]
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences
An exercise where students combine two or three sentences into one sentence containing only one independent clause. When finished, students can check their answers by comparing them to the suggested combination.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Combining Sentences
An exercise where students read six sets of sentences and combine each set into one sentence containing only one independent clause. Answers are typed into a box, and then students can check their work against the suggested answers to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Start & Stop Game: Adjectives
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find an adjective that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Verbs
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a verb that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start &...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Phrases
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a prepositional phrase that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good phrase can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Clauses
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a subordinate clause that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good clause can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This PDF is a graphic organizer designed two help students respond to a writing prompt.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Finding Fragments in Short Passages
Twenty short passages each containing one sentence fragment which students are asked to choose. Feedback for each answer is given along with the option of reading an explanation of why the answer is correct or incorrect. Passages and a...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals
Students type a sentence for each of twenty different plural words. When finished, they can create a PDF of their sentences and print them out to share.
Quia
Quia: Sentence or Fragment? Game #1
Can you recognize a complete sentence from a fragment? Using the hint provided, take this quiz and see if you know the difference!
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Persuasion Map [Pdf]
Use this graphic organizer to help build a persuasive piece of writing.
TES Global
Blendspace: Run on Sentences
A nine-part learning module including links to texts and images on run-on sentences and sentence fragments.
TES Global
Blendspace: Persuasive Writing
Work through nine links to videos, images, and graphic organizers to learn about persuasive writing.
TES Global
Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
TES Global
Blendspace: 2014, Term1 Writing Expositions Week 3
A four-part learning module with links to images, a website, and a video explaining how to write an argumentative piece.
TES Global
Blendspace: Grammar Pre Learner Week 1 Paragraphing
A six-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites about writing a paragraph.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: What Is a Sentence?
An explanation of a sentence and its parts.