Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text Using Strategies to Enhance Style & Tone
A learning module that teaches students about using literary devices to enhance style and tone in four lessons: Introduction, Style in Literature, Tone, and Your Turn.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plague Words and Phrases
"Avoid problems created by these words or phrases." Examples: And also, As to Whether, and lots more.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Paragraph Development
This site from the Capital Community College helps with paragraph development and topic sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables #3
Students read sentences looking at the two words in all caps, including spelling. They must decide what, if anything, needs to be changed, and select the correct answer. Links are also provided to a tutorial, quizzes, and "Guide to...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables #2
In this quiz, students read a sentence and type in the correct word choice, from the pair given, into the box provided. Links are provided for a tutorial, a list of quizzes, and "Guide to Grammar and Writing."
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Grammar English's Crossword I
Use the grammar clues provided to complete the crossword puzzle. Answers can be checked when finished, and letter hints are available if needed.
University of California
Can the English Language Survive?
Due to the "reliance on electronic media, rampant proliferation of homophonous misuses of the English language" has taken place. Test your knowledge on this quiz of homophones.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Putting Voice Into a Paper
This site provides tips and activities to help students develop voice in their writing. The tips are brief and direct and, if followed, should help a writer improve both voice and confidence.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Spelling: Accept vs. Except
A good reference that defines, differentiates, and demonstrates the usage and purposes of these commonly misused English words.
ACT360 Media
Act Den: Writing Den
Need some extra help in spelling, grammar, and writing? Search no further. The writing den gives great tips for sentence structure and even on writing essays. A lot of great information for language arts students and teachers.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Interjected Emotions!: Voicing a Story
By incorporating properly used conventions of grammar, students will begin writing a narrative based on an interjection and a name.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter
In this activity, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites
In this lesson, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Voice an Original Mystery
In this activity, students will create a narrative with dialogue based on a particular voice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques
In this instructional activity, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Imitating a Newspaper's Voice With a Funny and Original Idea
In this creative instructional activity, students will create a voice for a tabloid feature within a fairy-tale world.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Don't Eat Me Monologues
In this lesson plan, students will create a 5-part (introduction, 3 ideas, conclusion) monologue incorporating persuasive techniques and strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Listen to the Word Choice of Authors: Crafting a Poem
Young scholars will analyze a poem's word choice and then create a poem of their own using word wall vocabulary.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Dialogue Adventures
In this lesson students will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes
In this lesson plan students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What's Your Fifth Element?
In this lesson students will write persuasively in regards to a 21st century object.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.