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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Organizing Your Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Two slideshows and a screencast on organizational patterns used when writing essays and speeches. The first is a 20-slide presentation explaining the seven most common organizational patterns used in writing: time sequence, spatial,...
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Handout
Other

Kim's Korner: Definitions: Purposes for the Modes of Writing

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
What are the modes of writing? Use this site that details the different types of writing.
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Handout
Other

Air War College: Speaking Effectively: Preparing to Talk

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use tips from this experienced speaker to help you get through the jitters of public speaking. Explains how to assess your audience and adapt your presentation, how to choose a focus, and how to establish your purpose.
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Handout
University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Clear Writing: Ten Principles of Clear Statement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page features a list of ten principles that lead to writing clearly and concisely, such as avoiding unnecessary words, writing like you talk, writing to express and not to impress, and the like. It also discusses "fog indexes" to...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sense of Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Not only does this site from Capital College Community Foundation give you a fine explanation of writing purpose and how to identify yours, it also provides good examples of how to develop that purpose in a piece of writing. W.9-10.4...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing for an Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A seven-slide presentation discussing the importance of writing to an audience in order to establish tone, strengthen word choice, and determine what supporting details to include.
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PPT
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Introducing Your Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Follow these do's and don'ts of writing an effective introduction to a speech that will grab your audience's attention and state your central idea. Use the arrows to move through the information.
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Handout
Other

Canadaone.com: Sailing the Seven Cs of Effective Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Interesting article from Canadaone.com that outlines the author's seven C's of effective writing. Each of the concepts (all beginning with the letter "C") includes an explanation that demonstrates why the concept is important to the...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
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PPT
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Developing the Central Idea

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What do you want your audience to remember the most about the topic of your speech? This is will be your central idea and it can be boiled down to one sentence! Follow these guidelines for writing a concise central idea and then practice...
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Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Writing

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
The BBC offers quick (bitesize) activities, revision options, and quizzes on a variety of writing skills, covering writing arguments, writing factual documents, and writing stories.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What a Pest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are asked to identify issues related to integrated pest management and how they affect the environment.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Raft Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students understand their role as a writer, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic they'll be writing about. By using this strategy, teachers encourage students...
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Length of the Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing tutorial teaches you the proper length of an introductory paragraph.
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Activity
ACT360 Media

Sequence Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here are a few brief hints and key words to use when organizing a piece of writing by sequence or time.
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Handout
Other

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Write the Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How to create a memorable introduction. This good advice can be applied to writing essays, speeches, anecdotes, and more.
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Article
Other

Realty Times: Open Your Mouth and Say Success!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents two unique approaches to planning a speech for its best impact. It also includes tips for outlining a speech.
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Handout
Other

Writing the in Class Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Key elements to consider in writing an essay. The process, time saving strategies, revising and proofreading are outlined and discussed.
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Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Start With an Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a brief, but effective, explanation of how to use a sentence outline to organize and shape your paper.
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Handout
Other

Grammar book.com: Effective Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief list from The Blue Book with examples of how to take ineffective writing and transforming it into effective writing.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revising for a Different Audience [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
An activity where students are asked to write for a specific audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: Introductions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a brief overview of introductions, exploring what they are supposed to mean for an essay in writing.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Audience, Purpose, Language in Electronic Messages

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson plan considers changes in writing style since the inception of e-mail and text messaging.
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Handout
University of Washington

University of Washington: Audience Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A discussion of audience analysis that examines demographics, disposition, and level of knowledge.