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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Practice rewriting each of these twelve sentences in a more clear and concise manner. Check each sentence against the answer provided to see how well they match up.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences Power Point

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This handy PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of sentence diagramming. It includes a number of examples.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Fragments and Types of Sentences

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Ten questions asking students to identify the difference between complete sentences and sentence fragments.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Coordinating Conjunctions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An exercise with ten compound sentences. Students are asked to type the commas where they belongs in compound sentences with a coordinating conjunctions. Then students can check their answers to see how they did.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Writer's Workshop idea in which students 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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Learning to Punctuate Direct Addresses in a Voice Filled Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will create a persuasive narrative by correctly incorporating interjections and imperative commands.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creative Convincing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will create a friendly letter taking on the persona and voice of a persuasive animal.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Dialogue Adventures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity young scholars will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What's Your Fifth Element?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write persuasively in regards to a 21st century object.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Wacky Advertisement (With Disclaimer) Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson plan students learn how to summarize properly.
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Pearson Education: Declarative and Interrogative Sentences [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Here is a set of worksheets on identifying and using declarative and interrogative sentences.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This effective tool for teaching persuasive writing contains thorough lesson plans which encourage students to take a stance and create arguments to support their position. Contains printable worksheets, rubrics, a PowerPoint...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Camping Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Young scholars...