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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Web English Teacher provides great links and resources for assistance, activities, and information about expository writing.
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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
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Audience and Writing Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...
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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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...
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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] Write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.
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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
Other

University of Missouri Rolla: Purposes in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What are purposes in writing? Use this site from the University of Missouri-Rolla to learn more about the parts of the communication model. W.9-10.10 Write Routinely
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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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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.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Raft Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students understand their role as a writer, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic they'll be writing about. By using this strategy, teachers encourage students...
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Length of the Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing tutorial teaches you the proper length of an introductory paragraph.
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Activity
ACT360 Media

Sequence Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here are a few brief hints and key words to use when organizing a piece of writing by sequence or time.
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Handout
Other

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Write the Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How to create a memorable introduction. This good advice can be applied to writing essays, speeches, anecdotes, and more.
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Article
Other

Realty Times: Open Your Mouth and Say Success!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents two unique approaches to planning a speech for its best impact. It also includes tips for outlining a speech.