Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing to a Particular Audience and Purpose English Iii Writing
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn various rhetorical strategies you can use in writing for a particular audience and purpose.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Coherence and Transition
In this lesson, students will learn how to edit sentences so they move seamlessly from one to another within a paragraph; however, they can use the same methods to ensure that paragraphs move seamlessly from one to another in an entire...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: English Ii Writing: Revision Strategies
This is a unit including six different lessons on on English II Writing: Revision Strategies including the following: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language, Strengthen Sentence Variety, Parallelism, Evaluating and Revising a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions
This lesson focuses on the writing in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas and...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: English 4; Order and Chaos
A learning module asking students to analyze different types of texts, use literary terms, write a persuasive essay, and practice grammar and vocabulary skills all within themes related to order and chaos or war and peace.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Adapting to Your Audience
A clear guide to understanding the audience for your writing, this site leads you through steps to help you identify your audience, then structure your writing to meet that audience's needs and expectations. Use links on the right....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Different Audiences & Purposes
This lesson will help you evaluate changes in formality and tone within printed texts written for specific audiences and purposes. It focuses on writing produced during the Great Depression.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing a Series
This resource is designed to enhance the teaching of grammar in the context of reading and writing by using mentor sentences. In this resource, mentor sentences, or sentences that highlight a grammatical point, were chosen primarily from...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Out of Proportion
Students are asked to explain how natural disasters affect environmental health.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: In This Together
Students are asked to explain how a crane's parts work together to achieve the end result.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Same Setting, Different Moods
In this lesson,writers will examine and discuss techniques that writers use to link moods to setting descriptions (Lord of the Flies by William Golding). Next, they will choose a mood and an interesting setting, and they will imagine a...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Imitating a Newspaper's Voice With a Funny and Original Idea
In this creative instructional activity, students will create a voice for a tabloid feature within a fairy-tale world.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Place Poems
In this lesson students will develop a poem while thinking about a special place. They will develop their ideas using strong word choice and figurative language. After the students have completed their ideas, they will be linked together...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Alliterative Insects
In this lesson students develop a story about an insect while utilizing previously written sentences with strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Creating a Parallel World
Inspired by the opening events in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, students are asked to create an original parallel world that is similar to ours but different in certain ways. They will focus on the similarities and differences...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Patterns for Making Meaning
Students read the book The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along by Mahlon Hoagland to examine the sixteen patterns of life presented in the book. As students study...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Sequence
This learning module provides an explanation of the text structure for sequence. An explanation of the text structure for a sequence is provided, and chronological order text structure is demonstrated in a video tutorial lesson [1:24]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Noise
The words noise, nausea, and naval all stem from the same Latin root. Jessica Oreck divulges how their spellings and meanings diverged from the original naus. [2:02]
Other
Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing
This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...
Other
San State Francisco University: Newsworx (1001 Words)
View the media-rich work of teams of student journalists assigned to produce high-interest feature stories using pictures, audio, and words. Learn how to tell a story well by thinking critically about the different choices made by each...
Other
Word Detective
The Word Detective provides great information on the origin of certain words and phrases that are everyday lingo. Click on Index and chose from the alphabetical list or type the word you are looking for in the search box.