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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Words Bring Life to Setting Details [Pdf]
Students learn how to develop their ideas through description and action words through a story scavenger hunt. [PDF]
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Sensory Details
This site provides several sample sentences which show sensory details and aid students in writing specific rather than general sentences. It is a good site for someone preparing to write a descriptive essay. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory...
Harold D. Underdown
Derailed by Details
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.
Harold D. Underdown
Write Descriptive Passages to Die For
Provides excellent examples of descriptive writing for one needing inspiration. Site is written for those who write literature for children, but can also be applicable to other genres.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 4 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of Level 4 descriptive vocabulary words.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 4 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of different types of analogies and vocabulary words that describe.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 4 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of new vocabulary when applied in cause-effect sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of cause-effect relationships and drawing conclusions.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
Englishfor Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 7 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 7 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 7 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 8 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 8 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 8 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 8 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 8 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 8 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Use Details and Examples
Review how to use text evidence, details, examples, and personal experiences to make inferences then read a passage to practice on your own.
Other
D'youville College: Core Parts of a Sentence
This online writing lab provides a series of examples on identifying one of the two main components of complete sentences, the subject and the verb. Correctly identifying these parts will result in the ability to write complete sentences.
Other
Critical Reading: Subject and Predicate
Part of a larger site on "The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing," this section on the simple sentence focuses on the subject and the predicate. Definitions and examples are provided along with a section on...
Other
Braindance: Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance
Gives insight into improving reading speed by learning to read words in groups. There is an excercise to test your speed and suggestions on how to increase it.
Other
Writing Is Exciting!
Students and teachers can use this site to find detailed information on effective and creative story writing.