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Mechanics: Section 2
Kids can practice the mechanics of writing as they work through this online review sheet. They examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentence with regard to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Answers...
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Mechanics: Section 1
Save time and trees by using an online interactive instructional activity. Learners examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentence with regard to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. They then submit...
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Mechanics: Section 2
Here are 10 sentences, and each contains a mechanical error. Your class will revise each sentence, correcting capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. This worksheet in online and can be scored immediately.
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Wordiness
Refine the writing of your class members with this quick PowerPoint. Wordiness can kill effective writing, making it boring and indirect. Help your writers cut out some of the unneeded words by pairing this presentation with a piece of...
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Scaffolding a Reading/Writing Lesson
Learners explore pre-reading activities. Through looking at titles, and observing pictures, students predict what will happen in a story. They listen to a part of the story and then write their own conclusion. Learners complete the story...
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Scrapbook
Students, using photos as their inspiration, develop six personal narratives, then edit and revise them.
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Creating Personalized Stationery
Students write, format, enter, save, revise, edit a full block style letter with open punctuation for printing. They produce a personalized letterhead using a computer and access information from the Internet using a variety of search...
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Pendemonium - The Posse in Australia
Students revise letters focusing their revision on comma and periods usage. In this creative grammar lesson, students watch a video on commas and periods, write a letter to a partner without the use of commas or periods, and revise a...
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"My Body"
Students participate in various shared reading and writing activities related to the book "My Body" by Rhonda Jenkins. They identify and list words that could be used to label other body parts in the book, draw a picture of their face...
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Details, Details, Details
Students review paragraph development, use of adjectives and grammar requirements. They incorporate various details in a written paragraph describing a visual image used as a writing prompt.
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Fragments Wanted (Not)
Students rewrite newspaper employment ads using complete sentences.
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"All About Me" Paragraph
Fifth graders write a paragraph titled "All About Me" in the computer lab after they have drawn graphic organizers to fill in background information about themselves and used a "10-Point Writing Checklist" to do peer editing.
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Fire Escape Plan
Students explore fire safety. In this fire prevention and safety lesson, students discuss and brainstorm ideas about what to do if there is a fire. Students practice stating information that should be given when calling 911. Students...
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Organizing Ideas
Eighth graders investigate varous writing skills as part of larger course of study. The lesson plan is essentially a rough guide for conducting a class for writing. The main focus of the plan is organizing ideas using various strategies...
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Lesson Five:Determining Ideas and Adding Details
Second graders create their own writing pieces. In this narrative lesson, 2nd graders use a graphic organizer to come up with ideas and details. They practice writing topic sentences.
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Three Reasons Why I Want To Be...
Students investigate the process of writing an expository paper. The purpose of the paper is established in the introduction and the supporting details are sequenced in a logical order. The paper possesses punctuation and grammatical...
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School Day
Students participate in a lesson that involves writing a persuasive essay. They use the prompt of "extending the school day". The paper should contain correct elements of sentence structure with clear purpose that is supported with...
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Like and Don't Like: Object Pronouns
In this object pronoun worksheet, students review object pronouns. Then they use like and don't like to use object pronouns in sentences.
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A Card For Every Season
Second graders create greeting cards on the computer. In this greeting cards lesson plan, 2nd graders will create greeting cards that include simple sentences to express what they want to say.
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Subject/Predicate Song
Students sing a song about the parts of a sentence. In this grammar instructional activity, students sing a song that defines both the subject and the predicate and how they make a sentence together.
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Easy Essays Step 2
Third graders write essays after participating in mini-lessons that encourage better writing. They write using the model of a skeleton to which they add the muscles.
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All About Me
Students write a paragraph, make lists, draw, and brainstorm things about themselves, their goals, and their past. In this all about me lesson plan, students recall information about themselves, and interview others in order to write...
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What's In A Name
Second graders write a paragraph about their findings on what their name represents. In this writing lesson plan, 2nd graders will research their name and why they were named that. They will draw a picture that represents them along with...
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What a Painting!
In this language arts worksheet, students begin sentences with phrases starting with the word "there", complete a crossword, and complete a crossword. Students complete 3 activities total.