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Handout
Other

Univ. Of Washington: How to Make an Outline [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information on how to make an outline. Provides a sample.
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Unit Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Exposition

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson engages students in expository writing. Four graphic organizers are provided to assist students in the expository writing process.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for writing. Elaborate graphic organizers for the following areas are provided: persuasive essays, expository essays, paragraph writing, fiction pieces, narrative writing,...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Organizing and Developing Your Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of four important parts of a writing project with links to additional information on each.
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Graphic
TES Global

Tes: Assessing Pupil Progress in English: Writing

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint provides exemplar pieces to guide students to understand how to revise a standardized, on-demand writing assessment piece.
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Activity
Other

The Writing Conference, Inc.: Writing Contest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains the basics for the writing contest, which is open to all students. There are contests in poetry, narration, and exposition. The topic is the same for all three forms and links are provided for the judging criteria.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Avoid Unnecessary Construction and Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the need for clear and concise language when writing.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Determining Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
On this website you will find information, two presentations, and a practice worksheet explaining how to decide the audience of a written piece and how to appeal to an intended or general audience in an original text....
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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
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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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on students the importance of having of outlining; it offers links to the discussion of four outlining concepts: Reasons for outlining, the Preparation outline, the Speaking outline, and the Rough Draft outline.
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Communication: The Writing Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The learner will identify the three steps: prewriting, drafting, revising/editing, in the writing process and the elements in each step. W.9-10.5 Writing Process, W.11-12.5 Writing Process
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Writing a Sentence Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn how to write a sentence outline and then practice filling out an outline and writing their own outline for a speech.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
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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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Graphic
Other

Friends University: Patterns of Organization and Their Clue Words [Pdf]

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Chart lists patterns of organization with their corresponding clue words.
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Handout
Other

Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Organizing Paragraphs and Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page gives a quick, but thorough look at a few good ways to organize a piece of writing.
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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.