Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Persuasion Map [Pdf]
Use this graphic organizer to help build a persuasive piece of writing.
Other
Young Author's Workshop: Writing/drafting
Once you have an idea for your story, is there anywhere you can go online for writing advice? Definitely--the links on this page take you to writing tips, examples of good writing, places to sharpen your writing skills, and places to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revising for a Different Audience [Pdf]
An activity where students are asked to write for a specific audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Coherence
Discusses the importance of coherence in a composition. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.c
TES Global
Blendspace: Traits of Writing
A six-part learning module with links to videos, images, and a rubric about the six traits of writing: ideas, voice, organization, word choice, fluency, and conventions.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Writing Process: Drafting
An eight-part learning module with websites, videos, and texts about the drafting phase of the writing process.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Writing Process
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents a lesson on the writing process. Students are taken through the process step-by-step as they compose a short story.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing With Pizazz
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps the students with the first step in the Six Traits Writing Process-- gathering ideas. Students are encouraged to analyze writing samples and brainstorm possible personal writing...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Objective of this flipchart is to help students to begin to organize stories into paragraphs; and to begin to use paragraphing in presentation of dialogue in stories.
Tom Richey
Slideshare: Creative Brainstorming
This slide presentation provides a background of why the process of brainstorming is important as well as elements and tools you can use to get your creative juices flowing.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Test
This interactive assessment consists of six multiple-choice questions over text structures and patterns of organization.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Match
In this interactive game, students match the terms for the types of text structure to the correct descriptions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students learn the terms and types of text structures and patterns of organization.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Test
This is an interactive test over text structure including patterns of organization, types of writing, and graphic organizers. It consists of nine matching and eight multiple-choice questions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Match
This interactive requires the students to match text structure definitions with terms and graphic organizers.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Match
In this interactive game, students match the terms for the type of text structure to their definitions.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Leads in Narrative Writing
This lesson explains the purpose of a lead and introduces students to 6 different types of leads they can use in their writing.