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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Sausage Story: A Riddle Inspired Tale

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Writer's Workshop instructional activity in which students uncover the riddle of a Sausage Story, learn to identify the sausage sentence within the story, and finally write their own Sausage Stories along with hints for their readers...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Paragraph [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF lesson, POWER PARAGRAPH, focuses on analysis and will also help students to understand structure in a paragraph. The "power" concept teaches the students to organize their sentences according to different levels of importance....
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes

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

Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Scientific Important Book Passages

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars read and examine the structure of The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown and then follow that pattern while writing about the most important things about various scientific topics. Printable handouts and student samples...
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Harold D. Underdown

Derailed by Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful site for writers which gives the proper perspective in assessing the detail involved in your writing. Provides examples of how to include exciting, relevant details when writing fiction.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 4 [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of different types of analogies and vocabulary words that describe.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Writing Concisely

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page compares wordy writing to a art gallery cluttered with a mixture of great works and poor attempts making it hard to see the great works. Remove the clutter, write concisely so the reader gets the point of the paper. It offers...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the need to revise writing to remove unnecessary words and phrases to produce clear, concise writing. Examples are provided.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.
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Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive home page provides improvement module links in the areas of grammar, citations, and writing. The University of Sydney's The Write Site provides online support to help students improve their writing skills.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Common Mistakes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive exercise provides eight questions for students. Students will identify verb errors and sentence fragments.
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Handout
Other

Glossary: Grammatical Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an alphabetical list of common grammatical words.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson students create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively involved...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.
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Handout
Other

Suny: Conventions of Writing Papers About Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A professor's excellent explanation of how to write a professional sounding essay. Covers all aspects of an essay, and detailed examples give information on exactly how to write the essay.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Map Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will be challenged when they take this interactive grammar quiz? This quiz asks students to identify whether or not the sentence is grammatically correct. Come and check it out.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Strunk's the Elements of Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Bartleby.com's online version of William Strunk, Jr.'s classic reference book, "The Elements of Style."
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
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Handout
Other

Georgia Perimeter: Choosing and Writing for an Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource goes extensively into the importance of establishing an audience when writing. It also defines types, how to choose, and how to write for an audience.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Grammar: Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a general overview on phrases as an essential element of grammar.