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Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How to Approach Sentence Addition/deletion Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A step-by-step approach to a common question type on the SAT Writing and Language Test: adding or deleting sentences.
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Unit Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Develop Work: Revise and Edit

For Students 9th Standards
Evaluate a response to determine how well it meets the expectations of a rubric. Then revise and edit your work based on the model.
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Unit Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Develop Final Work

For Students 9th Standards
Develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Unit Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Develop Work: Compose

For Students 9th Standards
Review expectations and then draft a final product for the application unit.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by analyzing the requirements for the culminating task product for the application unit.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Conduct research to gather additional evidence to prepare to write.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Revise Your Work

For Students 9th Standards
Revise the organization of your work to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience. This will help develop work that is clear and coherent.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic to help understand the task.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by previewing the culminating task for Romeo and Julie to help understand the task.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Understand how learning about the past in The Joy Luck Club allows the mothers and daughters to alter their perceptions of one another. Choose one mother and daughter's experiences from part four of The Joy Luck Club to use to support...
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Parts One and Two

For Students 9th Standards
We will gather and organize evidence from parts one and two of The Joy Luck Club and the excerpts from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother to prepare to write.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Organize Before Writing

For Students 9th Standards
Revise the organization of your writing to a prompt to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
We will prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for A Lesson Before Dying guidebook unit. This will help us understand the task and prepare to gather evidence.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about the theme of isolation in A Lesson Before Dying.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision of Word Choice [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
Helping students revise their rough drafts can be a difficult process. Make it a little easier with this 3-step lesson regarding revision of word choice.
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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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Rubric
Other

Public Relations Writing: How I Grade a Press Release.

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Specialized but useful rubric geared towards examining journalistic style writing. Provides evaluation guidelines that one teacher uses, with a rubric to evaluate.
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Handout
Other

Sharp Points: Ideas and Style Guide by a Copy Editor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Unusual page that focuses on a copy editor's ideas, techniques, and guidelines for journalistic writing and editing. Decent source for ideas.
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Unit Plan
Other

Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
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Activity
Other

After the Deadline

For Students K - 1st Standards
Editing and proofreading opportunities are provided on this site. Students can type text on this site and will be guided to ways to fix their writing's errors in style, grammar, and style. Students can also paste into the text box and...
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Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: 6 Traits Post It Notes for Revision and Editing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a printable page of checklists that students can use during revision and editing of descriptive and narrative writing.
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Unit Plan
English Club

English Club: Peer Editing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub learning module explains the peer editing process. Resources for peer editors and proofreaders are provided, along with an opportunity for students to engage in an editing challenge.