Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strengthen and Weaken Learn More
How do we identify information that would strengthen or weaken an argument? Strengthen and Weaken questions ask you to find info that would make the conclusion of an argument more or less likely to be true, based on the evidence that's...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How to Approach Sentence and Paragraph Sequence Questions
Tips for tackling the questions on the SAT Writing and Language Test that ask you to improve the order of sentences in a paragraph or paragraphs in a passage.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: How to Read an Essay
Use this guide when reading an expository text or any type of essay, as it provides important questions you should ask yourself while you read. You can access this page in multiple languages from the English homepage.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Previewing Texts in Content Classrooms
Textbook previewing strategies focus not only on the structure of the text - such as the table of contents, index, chapter introductions, and so forth - but on a content overview, which focuses on the concepts and questions covered in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...
ACT360 Media
Writing Den
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
Other
Noodle Tools: Basic Language Literacy: Writing: Paragraph Art
When you create a coherent paragraph, it can be represented by any number of visual images. This page shows examples of how that might work to help writers understand the idea of coherence.
Other
Technical Writing: The Conjunction Or
Intended as a grammar reference for electrical engineers, this site addresses many of the technical issues of writing, including distinguishing between the inclusive and exclusive definitions of "or."
Other
Definition: Fiction v. Nonfiction
This writing and reading tutorial provides a detailed explanation of the difference between fiction and nonfiction in rhetoric.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Start With an Outline
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a brief, but effective, explanation of how to use a sentence outline to organize and shape your paper.
TES Global
Blendspace: Expository Writing
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, a video, and a quiz about expository writing, text structures, conjunctive adverbs, and more.
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Sentences
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraph Structure
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson was designed to help students to analyze how individual paragraphs are structured in writing.
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: Compound Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines compound sentences and discusses conjunctions and punctuation to combine the sentences. It provides many examples utilizing color-coding to help define each of the sentence parts.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Objective of this flipchart is to help students to begin to organize stories into paragraphs; and to begin to use paragraphing in presentation of dialogue in stories.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Errors in Body Paragraphs
This lesson goes over common issues in body paragraphs.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
This lesson goes over tips an techniques for writing an effective topic sentence. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.