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Activity
Can Teach

Can Teach: Writing Prompts and Journal Topics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site has hundreds of writing prompts/journal topics to get students started writing. Topics like "what is" and "what if" will get students thinking about what they could write.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Expository Writing Using Transitions

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A seven-part learning module on using transitions in expository writing. Lessons include text, images, a video, and a writing prompt.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: Narrowing Your Essay Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What steps can you take to narrow an essay topic? Delve into this awesome site to learn how.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Some Purposes of Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
As part of a review and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents an overview of various purposes of reading, including a five-bullet point explanation of reading purposes. Click the Next button for more information.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 5th Grade: Reading Terms: Flashcards

For Students 5th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 34 terms relating to reading and their definitions.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Test

For Students 5th Standards
This interactive assessment consists of six multiple-choice questions over text structures and patterns of organization.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Flashcards

For Students 5th Standards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students learn the terms and types of text structures and patterns of organization.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This is a set of interactive flashcards defining words that have to do with details in writing: supporting details, facts, opinion, examples, anecdotes, and statistics.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Information Book Report Form [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Great printable form to help students write an informational book report. Includes space for new vocabulary words learned and other information retained from the work. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: A Guide to Expository Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help guide the teacher and students through an expository writing prompt. Develop the essay directly on the flipchart and model writing for your class.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Think, Write, Read: Expository Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
While this lesson's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, pupils will write an expository paper...