Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing
This activity focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
Other
Canadaone.com: Sailing the Seven Cs of Effective Writing
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...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Putting It Together: Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay
This lesson focuses on strategies for moving essay writing beyond the five-paragraph essay structure to one whose structure is determined by the content. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Building Common Ground
This introduction discusses the need for researching your audience and learn strategies to find common ground.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Word Learning [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic maps, find research that supports semantic...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Expository & Persuasive Texts: Writing Expository Essays
In an expository essay, a type of informational text, the writer clarifies or explains something by using facts, details, and examples in a clear and concise way. To write an effective expository essay, students need a basic...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Flip Books and Story Boards
While this lesson is designed to aid in communications technology, the concept and procedure of the lesson can be readily used in any class. The main concept taught is organization and developing chronological order.
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Classification Paragraphs
These tips and phrases can help you create a classification paragraph.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Instructional Webs
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides efficient notetaking tools. Students will learn notetaking strategies that will help them organize major concepts about literary works.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Classification and Division Papers: Organization
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a classification paper.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Problem Solving Article: Flowcharts
Information and a video [3:31] on the purposes of the different shapes in a flow chart, and tips on how to use a flow chart.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Incorporating Questions in Writing
This lesson goes over how to incorporate questions in a composition.
TES Global
Blendspace: Infographics
A six-part learning module with links to images, a text, a video, and websites about infographics and how to design effective infographics.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] Recognizing the main idea is the key to good comprehension. The main idea is a general idea under which fits all the supporting material of the passage or paragraph. Learn and use three strategies that...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Compare Matrix
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer uses a matrix to help students compare items or events. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific experiments.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Word Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer is a word map helping students with building vocabulary. Students are asked to define, use the word in a sentence, give a synonym and draw a picture of the word. This is...
Tom Richey
Slideshare: Creative Brainstorming
This slide presentation provides a background of why the process of brainstorming is important as well as elements and tools you can use to get your creative juices flowing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial uses two short videos and a PDF handout to explain how and when to use headings and subheadings. Video 1 explains the purpose of headings and subheadings and why and when to use them; video 2 discusses how to format and...
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.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Summarizing
A collection of images to serve as writing prompts for students.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a webbing framework for students to analyze the main idea/theme and supporting details of a reading passage or historical event. A template for students to follow is given.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Five W's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that helps students identify the 5 W's-- Who- What-When-Where-Why-- and How. This is helpful in summarizing reading selections, historical events and creating news...
Other
Mind Maps
A list of bullet points detailing how to create a helpful and informational mind map. A good resource for learning about the organizational tool; includes an example.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Test
This interactive test features six matching and six multiple choice questions having to do with text structure and organizational patterns.