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How green is your school?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils read about Sidwell Friends School and the Green School concept and develop coverage for their student media. They employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to...
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Fairy Tales Retold

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use writing processes effectively to adapt and retell stories. They reread a favorite fairy tale, then adapt and retell in a PowerPoint or other multimedia presentation. They present their rewritten and edited presentations to...
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Writing: Planning and Organizing

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the five step prewriting process used before writing essays. They select a common topic and determine the purpose,and audience for the essay. They list examples in daily life where planning and organizing are...
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Persuade Me, Please! Reading a Persuasive Essay and Liking It!

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Persuade your writers that crafting arguments is not that difficult. They only need to follow the steps outlined in this resource.
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Outlining Main Ideas and Details Adapted from: Expository Writing by Tara McCarthy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine articles from a number of sources to determine their main ideas and details, and discuss them as a class. Using a worksheet, they practice outlining a report after watching a teacher demonstration of the outlining...
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Lesson 6: PowerPoint Presentation

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students design a PowerPoint presentation that expresses the adverse effects of smoking. For this PowerPoint and smoking lesson, students examine a student PowerPoint exemplar before creating one of their own following the given...
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Research and Technical Writing

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students summarize information from their research on to note-cards. In this technical writing lesson students examine examples of note-cards that contain main ideas from research previously conducted.  They will then compose their...
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Making Movies to Demonstrate a Process

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners use Windows Movie Maker to complete a how-to description activity. In this how-to and technology lesson, students create a slide show using Windows Movie Maker. Learners bring in the materials for the demonstration, draw a...
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Middle Ages Writing Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create a Middle Ages writing journal with narrative, expository and persuasive prompts.  In this creative writing lesson, students are given a list of Middle Ages topics and begin working in their journals. This is a...
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Writing Business Letters of Request

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders model proper format and elements of business letters. They review effective writing styles and write a request letter. Students also read a short story that includes conflict irony and symbolism They create a chart...
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Peer writing evaluation (myth)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students compose myths.  In this creative writing lesson plan students  use their knowledge of the features of myths to compose their own, then share with a peer for feedback.
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Writing up Math in English

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders review the steps in writing a math problem. They write story problems stating the situation, the problem to be solved, explaining the process used to solve the problem, and state the answer. Students view a PowerPoint...
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Life Processes

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners investigate the basic needs of organisms that must be met in order to carry out life processes. They view a variety of organism that are meeting and competing for resources. Students create an Idea Web for the animals shown....
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Quick Writes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers write on a variety of topics, maximize creative and expository writing skills, develop focused writing, organize ideas, incorporate detail in writing, and exhibit varied and precise word choice.
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Introduce Writing a Letter

For Teachers K
Students explore the process of writing by participating in an early writing activity. In this alphabet letter lesson, students utilize a pencil for the first time and identify the proper grip for writing. Students utilize their pencils...
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Leads for Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write two descriptive leads to learn how to reel in readers. After their leads have been written, they will share with a partner to decide which was the most appealing. In this leads lesson, students can also write a reflection...
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Word Choice in Writing

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore language arts by writing dialogue. In this vocabulary choice lesson, 6th graders identify synonyms and the importance of using a thesaurus while writing dialogue in their own original work. Students revise and edit...
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Writing Descriptions of "My Favorite Place"

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students write a descriptive writing piece. In this writing activity, students use a visualization exercise to add more descriptions to their writing.
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Galaxies – Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the five senses and how to incorporate them into their writing to make it come to life. In this descriptive writing lesson, students must describe objects by touching them without seeing, and describe different...
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Color Code Writing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice color coding in their writing. In this writing instructional activity, students work on a new technique to help with them with their formation of letters and numbers.
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Writing: A Lesson Plan on Beginnings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students rewrite the beginning of a story. In this writing lesson, students read stories from Spooky South by S.E. Schlosser in order to gain exposure to different ways to begin a story. Then, students chose one of the three techniques...
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Monster Writings

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice descriptive writing by describing a fictitious monster they created.  For this language arts lesson, 4th graders illustrate an image of a monster character they imagine and practice using their vocabulary to...
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The Kidlink Day Project

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create journal entries on-line as part of a "Kidlink Day" activity. Entries are compared and evaluated by their peers. The writing process is practiced in this lesson.
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There's No Accountin with Ledgers

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders create and maintain a ledger, write an essay for the process, and learn to keep financial accounts through the ledger. For this ledger lesson, 10th graders define an accounting ledger and create one for the money they've...

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