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Ncrel: Home Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
This list of suggestions for encouraging a love of reading and the development of pre-reading skills is very helpful. It contains sections on Daily Reading, Book Talk, Extended Discourse, Language Play, Writing, and Dramatic Play....
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Middle school.net: Shakespeare Analysis & Slide Show
Check out this informative site featuring an analysis of Shakespeare. The objective of this activity is for students to analyze a sonnet and present their findings via slide show. This lesson integrates technology into the curriculum.
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Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
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Esl Independent Study Lab
This is a great resource for ESL/EFL students; it presents a collection of more than 250 sites where you can find reading and writing exercises, games, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and more. Rather than present a straight list,...
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Writing About Holidays
Discover how to write about the holidays when you explore this lesson plan. Learners will have an opportunity to identify their audience.
Emory University
Emory University: Rome
An exploratory site of Rome with pages on People, Mythology, Daily Life, Death & Burial, Writing, and Archeology.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Basic Mechanics
This page focuses on the basic mechanics of writing including links to Genre, Thinking, Methods of Reasoning, Evidence, and Citation.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Think About Writing Ideas
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides strategies for selecting a writing topic.
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Business Correspondence: Complaint and Adjustment Letter
This example provides a brief overview describing what a complaint letter is and how to properly write one.
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Complaint Letter: Example
A sample of a complaint letter with components necessary to complete successful coorespondence.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
Build a greater understanding of poetry and poet's voice. Develop and interpret a poem for a oral performance. Links include presentation rubrics and participation rubric.
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Read Write Think: She Did What? Revising for Connotation
Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this minilesson plan, learners explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."
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Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience
Past meets present in this instructional activity in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
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Read Write Think: Research Paper Strategies
Students use picture books in this instructional activity to find ideas for research paper topics and structures. Through the use of these resources, students are able to shape content in a much more meaningful way.
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Read Write Think: Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
This series of lessons involves student collaboration, writing and analytical skills, technology and imagination. While the lesson suggests use of FrontPage, it would also be possible to use a number of other authoring tools.
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Read Write Think: Writing Leads in the Middle School Class
Great lesson plan in which students read various examples of "leads," or attention-grabbing introductions, in literature. Students then contemplate and develop their own interesting "lead" for a short story and share it with the class....
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Read Write Think: An Active & Passive Voice Mini Lesson
Lesson which allows students to explore active/passive voice verb choice through numerous online resources, and then apply these principles to their own writing style.
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Georgia Perimeter: Choosing and Writing for an Audience
This resource goes extensively into the importance of establishing an audience when writing. It also defines types, how to choose, and how to write for an audience.
City University of New York
College of Staten Island Library: How to Write an Essay
Resource defines what an essay is, the parts of an essay and their functions, and also discusses the editing process and how important it is to check a draft for completeness and high quality. Includes a link to an online guide to citing...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Use Wiki to Tell Stories Online
This lesson has students create stories that reflect wiki kind of reading. Students begin by reading untraditional books that use fragmented storylines, multiple perspectives, and unresolved plots. They apply these same types of...
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Abcteach: How to Haiku [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Wonderful printable haiku form that explains how to write one and leaves room for students to write their own.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Structure of the Outline
Lists the proper way to develop an outline before writing a paper or an essay.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Guidelines for Writing Hydrologic Reports [Pdf]
A very informative site, which is provided for by the U.S. Geological Survey, on how to write hydrologicic reports.