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Handout
English Club

English Club: Punctuation Styles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial expounds upon the differences in punctuations styles that exist among individual writers, British and American authors, and publishers.
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Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At this site, Jack Lynch sets forth many guidelines for writing good paragraphs, from length, to specific word choice, to proofreading, to voice, to punctuation. Links are provided to help the student seeking additional clarification.
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Handout
Other

Tidewater Community Colleg Writing Center: Essay Planning and Writing Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Presents guidelines for how to plan and write an essay.
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Activity
Curated OER

Macmillan/mc Graw Hill: Writing: Consistent Style and Tone

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about maintaining a consistent style and tone in writing.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Style and Technique

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use context to figure out how to use language appropriately--formality, irony, understatement, and overstatement.
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Activity
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: In the Mirror of Genre

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A teacher's research project page that explores his students' journal responses to various literary works. Basic and limited entries.
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Activity
Other

Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Page Layout

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on page layout and more specifically the length of paragraphs and lines as found in emails.
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Website
Other

Technical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides style and grammar rules for technical writing.
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Activity
Other

If I Were a Carpenter: The Tools of the Writer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty tips for writers, slanted toward fiction, from the director of the National Writers' Workshop. Tips are divided into four areas: sentences and paragraphs, language, effects, and structure.
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Activity
Other

New Poets Press: Writing Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides some good, practical advice on writing poems. Written in a simple, down-to-earth style that is easily accessible. An outline at the top of the page will lead you to different sections of the page. Part of a larger poetry...
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Handout
Other

Write Content Solutions: Correlative Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about correlative conjunctions and how to use them while considering agreement and parallel structure.
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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
Letter Writing Guide

How to Write a Business Letter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This student-friendly site contains the purpose of business letter writing. In addition, the article discusses the elements of good business letter writing.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar and Formality

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over ways in which the correct use of grammar may be perceived as formality. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1 and CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6, L.11-12.1a Gram/Usage changes
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to texts and videos about writing different types of poetry.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Spelling and Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students proofread and correct mistakes in a writing piece, and then apply the writing process to create a tall tale story. Additionally, this lesson helps students understand the purposes and elements...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing Prompts

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will learn and practice strategies for strengthening their writing by using strong verbs and literary devices.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Formal Tone in a Discursive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides several tips for using formal tone in an essay. The tips are arranged into 'Do' and 'Do not use' categories.
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Handout
Shared Visions Unlimited

Shared Visions Unlimited: Exploring English

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the portal to a website that provides a graphically colorful tutorial to the English language including the parts of speech, sentences, style guidelines, usage, punctuation, spelling, and so on.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Describing People

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize focusing on specific forms of writing, this site discusses describing people as a type of descriptive writing.