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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: How Will You Be Remembered?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will be exploring self image. They will be analyzing how they would like to ultimately be remembered by writing a eulogy, inspired by Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You." They will then explore a change...
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Harvard University

Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.
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Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Writing About Science

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information and specific tips on what scientific writing is and how to make it more precise, clear, and objective.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Compare/contrast Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This PDF lesson focuses on writing a comparison/contrast essay, which is a great format for helping young scholars think deeply about two ideas or concepts with multiple similarities and differences. This type of essay has four-parts -1)...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 5.1 Writing About Literature: The Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn the basics of how to write about literature by asking subjective and objective questions; use tone, diction, and syntax; identify plot elements, and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: 'Batty' About Bats!! (Writing)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As a part of a week-long unit about bats, the students will identify the characteristics of a bat and write an essay about bats. Student understanding will be enhanced through the use of books, poems, lectures, discussions, individual...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Think, Write, Read: Expository Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
While this lesson's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, students will write an expository...
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Other

Oakland Writes: Student Exemplars: Sixth Grade: Expository Essay [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An expository essay written by a sixth-grader with notes calling attention to important writing concepts evident in the essay including a well-written title, opening sentence, thesis, main ideas, supporting details, and more.
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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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Other

Oakland Writes: Student Exemplars: Seventh Grade: Persuasive Essay [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A persuasive essay written by a seventh-grader with notes calling attention to important writing concepts evident in the essay including a well-written title, opening sentence, opinion statement, supporting details, call to action, and...
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: The Four Types of Writing Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Democratic Processes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students write informative/explanatory texts describing various aspects of the political process in the United States. This self-paced module is aligned to College and Career Ready Standards for Literacy in Social...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Expository Escapade: Detective's Handbook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working on higher-level thinking skills with your readers is made easier with this lesson. You will have your students connect with and analyze a mystery story at their grade-appropriate level. Lesson plan, printable worksheets, and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will focus on the writing you do in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas...
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Other

Academic Help: Writing Samples: Expository Essay Samples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Links to several examples of expository essays in order to better understand the process and end result of a well written expository essay.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Expository Writing Using Transitions

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A seven-part learning module on using transitions in expository writing. Lessons include text, images, a video, and a writing prompt.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, a video, and a quiz about expository writing, text structures, conjunctive adverbs, and more.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Informational Text: Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit is designed to teach students about research writing. The lessons follow the format of Writer's Workshop. Many of the lessons provide a formula for students to follow while constructing their essays to ensure struggling readers...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Thieves to Preview Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Exposition

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson engages students in expository writing. Four graphic organizers are provided to assist students in the expository writing process.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading (And Scaffolding) Expository Texts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To help students comprehend expository text structures, teachers can acquaint them with the signal or cue words authors utilize in writing each of the structures and use the graphic organizers offered in this article
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Analysis of to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Used as a follow-up lesson after reading the novel and viewing the entire video of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, students will analyze the opening title credits which show the cigar box and its contents which Jem and Scout have found in the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: This Is My Life!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This assignment requires you to write about your own life, your family, and the things that are influencing you so far in your personal journey. The result will be a short autobiography of your own and hopefully a little more...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Teaching the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this self-directed study involving research, composition, and presentation, students analyze Chaucer's characters of The Canterbury Tales as presented in the Prologue. Each student casts a modern personality in the role of one of the...

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