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EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 3: Unit 3, Lesson 5

For Teachers 10th Standards
Can you please clarify? Scholars continue to work on their argumentative essays about selling human tissue by clarifying and adding cohesion. Writers begin by looking at model paragraphs and then begin improving their writing. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing About Time: My Favorite Times

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Start by clicking on the icon that says, "Download the Activity." The format is much easier to read and understand here! Then, encourage your class to write about some of their favorite things through a three-paragraph essay. Examples...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Modernism in Poetry, Painting, and Music

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Are you teaching Modernism to your class? Connect different areas of artistic expression in the Modernist Era. Learners read T.S. Eliot, view art by Pablo Picasso, and listen to a Modernist musical composition. This final assignment is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Analytical Essay

For Teachers 4th - 5th
What is an analytical essay? Introduce this type of thinking to your young writers. First, discuss what it means to analyze something. Then, identify the different components of an essay and what details are embedded in each component....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Young Learner's Writing Workshop 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students become familiar with writing an essay in English. They are given an overview of basic essay writing styles. Students develop skills that are used when analyzing texts as the basis of their essays.
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Activity
Curated OER

Pudd'nhead Wilson: Writing Strategy

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Assign this narrative essay after finishing Puddn'head Wilson. Learners write about their own experiences with overcoming obstacles. A five-step process is laid out on this assignment page.
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Assessment
New York State Education Department

Comprehensive English Examination: June 2013

For Students 9th - 12th
Tired of having to create your own formative assessments? Use a ready-made resource to assess listening and reading comprehension, essay writing, and literary skills. Scholars work through 28 questions in response to five different texts.
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Performance
Curated OER

Creative God or Goddess

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Who causes sinkholes? Or acid rain? High schoolers try their hand at myth-making as individuals create a god or goddess responsible for the modern-day phenomenon. They introduce their deity in an essay that reveals the name, parentage,...
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Website
University of North Carolina

Thesis Statements

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Phrases such as "This paper is going to be about" and "I am going to tell you about" do not make for effective thesis statements. A handout from the UNC Writing Center helps writers break from those phrases to craft effective thesis...
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

St. Patrick's Day Writing: If I Found a Pot of Gold...

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This St. Patrick's Day, young writers imagine they found a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. After a class discussion and brainstorming, scholars compose a narrative essay making sure they incorporate transitions and at least three...
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Valhalla Free Union School District

End of the Year Writing Portfolio Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Ask class members to reflect on their year-long writing experience by creating a portfolio of their work. Here's a resource that details what should be included in such a portfolio, and provides a rubric that can be used to assess...
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PPT
Curated OER

Five Paragraph Essay

For Teachers 9th - 11th
The components of a five-paragraph essay are outlined on these slides. Not much explanation is given, but you can use this as you lecture and help your learners write. Follow the outline for what each paragraph should contain, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How to Write A+ Essays!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan, which promises to improve the essays of your middle schoolers, contains a list of characteristics an essay should include. It breaks it down into the introduction, thesis statement, body, etc. There's also a list of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Effective Writing is More Than a Five Paragraph Essay

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Groups become experts in one aspect of the six traits of writing, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, jigsaw, and teach others about their trait. Writers then focus on these traits as they compose a persuasive essay about a person they...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Expository Essay Topic: Peer Review

For Students 7th - 9th
Class members use an expository essay worksheet to review a peer’s paper. The focus here is on the thesis statement.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Contemporary Civic-life Issue Research Based Essay

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders write a five paragraph persuasive essay on a contemporary civic-life issue.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Peer Editing / Revision

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Complete the steps of the writing process. Emerging writers present final drafts of essays that include thesis statements, appropriate paragraphing, elaboration, and style. They participate in a peer editing activity that requires them...
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PPT
Curated OER

Formal Writing Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Give your class tips on formal writing. A paragraph format is outlined along with specifics for writing a conclusion sentence. A few transitions are listed to vary sentences and sentence structure. Pull this resource back out whenever...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Five Paragraph Essay

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a standard outline, using a word processing tool, while they are learning about the basic writing device of the 5 paragraph essay.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Worksheet for a Five-Paragraph Essay

For Students 8th - 10th
In this five paragraph essay worksheet, students complete an outline in which they identify their thesis statement, main points, and supporting details. The worksheet effectively works as an outline for the essay.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Eye On the Environment Essay

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze the impact of human activity (e.g., population density, pollution) to a country where the target language is spoken. They prepare a three paragraph essay and describe the impact of pollution on the environment...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Using Spatial Organization in Writing

For Students 7th - 8th
In this using spatial organization in writing worksheet, students read the explanation of spatial organization, interactively explore a photograph, record their impressions, compare various impressions, then write an essay telling an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Essay Project Syllabus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A traditional syllabus for a traditional expository writing course that produces the traditional five paragraph essay.
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Organizer
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Scholastic

Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...

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