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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Be Your Own Chief Editor

For Teachers 9th
The value of this punctuation and grammar lesson is in the SMART board presentation, which takes pupils through the proofreading process. It would be a good way to introduce the idea of proofreading in your class before beginning a unit...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communicating about Our World through Informal Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review their writing for repetition of words at the beginning of the sentence.  In this informal writing lesson, 5th graders share examples of sentence beginnings.  Students use a thesaurus to find antonyms and synonyms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Informal Writing 2

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore characteristics of informal writing. They read a class story. Students rewrite the story in an informal style. Students discover that contractions and exclamation marks are used in the informal style.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Informal Writing 1

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine characteristics of informal writing. Students read through a class story. They rewrite the story so that it sounds if they were explaining the story to a friend. Students discover the use of apostrophes and...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: English: Formal and Informal Speaking Quiz [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Assess the differences between formal and informal speech. Three levels of difficulty with answers provided.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: A Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, "A Dream", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Madeline Jacobs and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: Between My Country and the Others

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Between My Country--and the Others", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Ellie Wen and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Contraction Worksheets

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with forming contractions. Practice with forming contractions from separate words is provided with through two different worksheets.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Spoken Language Study Teaching Resources 11 20

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 20-page word resource discusses the topic of "Slang" for students. Practice exercises and notes are provided. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Consistent Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource reminds students how to write with a consistent point of view. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to fix a sentence that contains an inconsistent point of view.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Bff

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text between two girls who are best friends, but one is vacationing with her family in Venice. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Handout
Letter Writing Guide

Sample Invitation Letter (Business)

For Students 9th - 10th
This informational site provides a well-written invitation exemplar.
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Activity
TES Global

Tes: Letters: Formal & Informal

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides explanations for different modes of writing. Examples of informal and formats are provided.