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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
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Handout
Other

Hamilton College: Guidelines for Writing an Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents many guidelines here that will be helpful as you write your first draft. Click on the topic you want to know more about and the guidelines will load.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: Essay Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the purpose of the conclusion and how it relates to the thesis and introduction of the essay.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Writing Essays (Expository) (Lesson)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan designed for seventh graders. Students write expository essays that include details, facts, and examples. Includes prewriting handouts, some example paragraphs, some example prompts, and a scoring guide.
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Handout
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Research Paper: Writing a Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and develop a conclusion to a research paper. Includes in-depth information and examples.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout focuses on what an exploratory or inquiry paper is and how to write the introduction including the questions you need to answer and setting the context, stating why the main idea is important, and stating your research...
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Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verb Tense Consistency

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry focuses on verb tense consistency in sentences, paragraphs, and essays by explaining the importance of maintaining verb tense throughout each and providing examples of each.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hershey Kiss Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for writing. Elaborate graphic organizers for the following areas are provided: persuasive essays, expository essays, paragraph writing, fiction pieces, narrative writing,...
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Activity
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on the student learning how to write strong persuasive essays. Strategies are provided to help the student complete a persuasive writing assignment.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Structuring Your Individual Arguments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A diagram is provided to help students organize an argument. Assertions, sub-assertions, evidence, and counterarguments are included. Click on page 2 at the bottom to see the functions of the above and page 3 to for a practice activity....
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Website
Other

English 100: Persuasive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial provides writing instructions and ideas to help the student in preparing a persuasive essay.
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: How to Write a Review of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explores the writing of an analytical essay in terms of a review of literature. The site provides guidelines for students to follow when writing the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. It also offers links to useful...
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: What Is a Myth?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about myths from around the world in this self-guided unit while also learning how to construct a compare and contrast essay. Included are characteristics of creation myths, videos about Chinese and Egyptian myths, and a step by...
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
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Activity
ACT360 Media

Writing Den

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
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Handout
Other

Book Rags: Articles: How to Write a Compare/contrast Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about two different ways to organize a compare and contrast essay and how each way looks in a paragraph breakdown.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Length of the Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing tutorial teaches you the proper length of an introductory paragraph.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Editing for Coherence and Transition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn how to edit sentences so they move seamlessly from one to another within a paragraph; however, they can use the same methods to ensure that paragraphs move seamlessly from one to another in an entire...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Organizing Your Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Two slideshows and a screencast on organizational patterns used when writing essays and speeches. The first is a 20-slide presentation explaining the seven most common organizational patterns used in writing: time sequence, spatial,...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Transitions and Transitional Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to use transition words and transitional devices to connect sentences, paragraphs, and sections in an essay.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson defining a conclusion and discussing how to write an effective conclusion. Students learn the traditional conclusion format as well as other formats that may better fit a writer's topic and purpose. Includes a section...

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