Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: #7: Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer
Peer response helps students learn how to give constructive feedback to others, an important life skill. "Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer" visits the classrooms of three teachers-fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde, seventh-grade teacher...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Wkshop 8: Teaching the Power of Revision
Workshop 8 takes viewers into the classrooms of three language arts teachers-Velvet McReynolds, Mary Cathryn Ricker, and Jack Wilde-as their students tackle the ongoing task of revision. Throughout the workshop, we hear reflections on...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Strategy Guide: Peer Review
This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising and Editing Skills: Teaching Revision
Watch twelve videos and download content to learn more how teachers can use a revision guide to teach students how to revise a literary essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising & Editing: Making Revising & Editing a Priority
This resource explores strategies for teaching students how to revise and edit content area writing. It contains original content from the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies: Focus on Writing professional development. Download and print...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Self Editing
This writing lesson teaches students how to become self-editors by learning to judge and critique their work.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Wriring With Writers: Writing a Book Review
This is a five-step process for writing a book review. Writers advise on how to write a book review. There is also an opportunity to publish your review on the World Wide Web.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Oral History
Great online lesson that takes students through the entire writing process- from prompt to publishing. Online or printable versions of each step are available. The prompt asks students to interview people and write about their oral...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation
A Writer's Workshop idea in which learners learn to use and punctuate adverbs and specific dialogue to create puns called Tom Swifties. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages
A lesson plan made for young scholars to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision [Pdf]
Help your students learn to revise a rough draft with a little help from this instructional activity. [PDF]
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Sprint [Pdf]
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, use this hands-on activity to help students revise their rough drafts. [PDF]
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Zooming in on a Prompt About Friendship
Take your students step by step through the revision process of with this prompt and guide.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Sorcerer's Binocular Revision
Take students through the revision process with this prompt and lesson.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Focusing on Facial Expressions
Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Thinking About What Bugs You
Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Keeping the Writing Going
A list of seven writing ideas designed to inspire students to continue writing in Writers Workshop even after they have finished working on a specific piece.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Planning
Tips for planning an essay. Links to additional information on the topics Assess the Situation, Think about Writing Ideas, How to Write a Thesis Statement, and How to Write an Outline are provided.
Quia
Quia: Phonological Awareness
This proofreading exercise asks students to read sentences and using the drop-down menu to select the correct choice for the blank. These sentences cover capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and usage.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: How to Writing Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose
Contains plans for five fourth grade lessons that ask learners to write essays for future fourth graders about how to have successful years. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Promoting Authentic Letter Writing
This lesson plan teaches letter-writing format by using literature and shared writing. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on topic,...
Other
Dena Harrison: Narrative Self Editing Questions [Pdf]
A printable PDF providing eleven questions young writers can ask themselves as they edit their narrative pieces.