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Snn Newsroom: Reporter's Toolbox: Writing Editorials and Columns
Advice and examples of editorial and feature column writing, along with an explanation of the role that editorial writers and columnists fill. Explains how to structure this type of writing in order to present clear arguments.
Other
Write Content Solutions: Correlative Conjunctions
Learn about correlative conjunctions and how to use them while considering agreement and parallel structure.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Prepositional Phrase
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, and it has great information on the prepositional phrase. The site provides numerous examples along with information on usage and tips for recognizing...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word of the Day
Links to seventeen different word lists under the following categories: common words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and interjections.
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Health 1
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related to different types of food. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Health 2
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related to different types of food. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Business 3
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related to meetings in the workplace. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
English Club
English Club: Business Crossword 10
This EnglishClub crossword reviews vocabulary associated with business.
English Club
English Club: Business Crossword 3
This EnglishClub crossword reviews vocabulary associated with the business world.
English Club
English Club: Business Crossword 6
This EnglishClub crossword reviews vocabulary associated with business.
English Club
English Club: Business Crossword 7
This EnglishClub crossword reviews vocabulary associated with business.
English Club
English Club: Business Crossword 9
This EnglishClub crossword reviews vocabulary associated with vocabulary.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Describing Weather
Lean twenty-two words to use when describing the weather by reading short passages and using context clues to define weather related vocabulary words.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Varying=smooth Reading
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts about varying sentences to improve fluency.
Other
Prezi: Tone, Diction, and Analysis of Word Choice
Slideshow explores the connection between word choice and the author's tone.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of a Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers all of the areas of a paragraph including topic sentence, supporting sentences, and clincher sentence. Different kinds of supporting details are explained and students can practice...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use information from their reading and writing to increase vocabulary and enhance language usage in this flipchart. The use of Activotes is incorporated for assessment. A literary elements...
English Page
English Page: English Vocabulary: Advanced Vocabulary Lessons
This site gives people learning English with a list of useful vocabulary for situations such as getting an apartment or going to the grocery store. It includes a learning activity to practice the vocabulary.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fishcheeks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses journaling and other writing activities to help students develop writing and vocabulary competencies.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Oral Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will use standard proofreading symbols to edit a given manuscript. Students will suggest definitions of vocabulary words based on context clues.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Errors With Topic Sentences
This lesson discusses common issues with topic sentences.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Grammar Quizzes
365 interactive quizzes on various grammar and writing skills. While answering questions on each topic, students are provided with notes about the topic and information needed in order to reach the correct answer.
University College London
Internet Grammar of English: Introducing Phrases
This entry from an online English-grammar book discusses phrases, the structure of phrases, types of phrases, and provides an exercise for each section. In the top right corner, click on the page numbers 1-5 to follow through the...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Vocabulary: Finding New Ways to Say Something: Activity 1 of 3
Practice your vocabulary skills by choosing the stronger synonym from a word bank to complete each sentence.