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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to practice recognizing sentences that need to be revised to add variety and revising sentences by using additions and sentence combining.

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Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Evaluating and Revising a Thesis: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to evaluate a thesis statement and how to identify the problems that might call for revision.

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Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Parallelism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Parallelism in writing requires aligning words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in similar grammatical structures. This lesson will provide you with strategies to help you...

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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th

In this lesson, you are going to practice evaluating sentences, adding to sentences, and combining sentences. You are also going to do sentence imitation to boost your sentence savvy.

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Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising and Editing Skills: Teaching Revision

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Watch twelve videos and download content to learn more how teachers can use a revision guide to teach students how to revise a literary essay.

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Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising & Editing: Making Revising & Editing a Priority

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This resource explores strategies for teaching students how to revise and edit content area writing. It contains original content from the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies: Focus on Writing professional development. Download and print...

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Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A learning module that teaches students about tone, style, and figurative language in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Identifying Diction Indicating Tone, Identifying Figurative Language, Spotting Jarring Departures from Tone in Diction...

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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Introductory Prepositions and Series of Three

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

After giving students the writing topic "A Special Day that I Remember, give students ten to fifteen minutes to write on the topic. Then tell them they will be revising their "Special Day" prompt writing, but first they will listen to...

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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Analyzing First Words and Sentence Length

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

After students are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...

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Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

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...

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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, this instructional activity focuses on teaching students how to revise a rough draft. Links to the 6-traits are included.

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Writing Fix: Revision [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Help your learners learn to revise a rough draft with a little help from this instructional activity. [PDF]

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Writing Fix: Revision Sprint [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards

Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, use this hands-on activity to help students revise their rough drafts. [PDF]

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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Zooming in on a Prompt About Friendship

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Take your students step by step through the revision process of with this prompt and guide.

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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Sorcerer's Binocular Revision

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Take students through the revision process with this prompt and instructional activity.

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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Focusing on Facial Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.

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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Thinking About What Bugs You

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: She Did What? Revising for Connotation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this minilesson, students explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."

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Read Write Think: Improving Student Writing Through Critical Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Contains plans for a lesson about writing draft letters, or reflective letters about pieces of writing that students are submitting to an instructor. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...

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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

For this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on...

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Grammarly Handbook: Global Revisions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This page focuses on how to do global revisions, reading and rereading drafts for content and quality, before editing for errors.

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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Motivating Middle School Students to Revise and Edit [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

This article explores the idea of authentic audiences and student publication for motivating student writers.

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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reading to Write

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Since students often need to write about what they read, this site offers strategies to use while reading that will make the writing much easier. These include not only reading strategies but note-taking and planning strategies as well.

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