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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Prewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on prewriting including the purpose and characteristics of prewriting, prewriting strategies, the rhetorical context, and developing a working thesis statement. It also includes a slide show about author, audience,...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on main idea and details through which young scholars use the topic sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and categorize details as main idea or supporting. With free...
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Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...
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Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the organization of argumentative papers and developing an outline for them. It begins with topic, stance, and thesis statement; next one lists each claim in order of appearance in a paper and two different...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on supporting details using a video of a paragraph from a book showing the topic sentence and two strong, reliable, supporting details. This is followed by a slideshow that stresses the need for variety in the types...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Paragraph Development

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Capital Community College helps with paragraph development and topic sentences.
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Handout
Colorado State University

Colorado State University: How Thesis Is Related to Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This table shows the progression from topic to purpose to thesis, as well as explaining the role of the thesis statement. Use the links on the right to get to the specific information you are interested in including forms to fit purpose...
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PPT
The History Cat

The History Cat: How to Write a Quality Cer (Claim Evidence Reasoning) [Ppt]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Presents an assignment where students must write an essay that includes a thesis statement, claims, evidence, reasoning, and a conclusion. Each of these is explained in the slideshow and a written example is provided.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Parts of a Paragraph

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers all of the areas of a paragraph including topic sentence, supporting sentences, and clincher sentence. Different kinds of supporting details are explained and students can practice...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Match

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this interactive learning game, students match terms relating to the main idea with their definitions. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, detail, supporting details, summary, summarize, retell, infer,...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Writing a Thesis Statement

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent tip sheet for creating and perfecting a thesis statement. Also includes information about statement of purpose and examples.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Writing a Thesis Statement

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent tip sheet for creating and perfecting a thesis statement. Also includes information about statement of purpose and examples.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Building Paragraphs

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart features topic sentences and supporting details with moveable sentences to build a paragraph.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Justice and Injustice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will be exploring the themes of justice and injustice. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, and learning activities. At the end of the unit, you will follow the research process to...
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Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the organization of argumentative papers. It discusses the purpose of argumentative papers and the required parts; then it provides the basic organizational pattern for the paper: introduction with a hook for the...
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Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Shaping Information: Ordering Information and Outlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses finding a logical order for the ideas you wish to present in your essay. Uses samples to show how changing the position of the topic sentence changes the emphasis. Briefly touches on transitions. Then discusses the outline as...
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Wwii on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Smithsonian Education presents a lesson covering the WWII's propaganda program which enforced the ideals of Civic Responsibility. Provides eight pages of poster examples, detailed background over the time period, and the goals of the...
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Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paragraph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on the paragraph; it defines paragraph; explains how it transitions from the previous paragraph, develops the new thought of the topic sentence, and transitions to the next paragraph. It uses an example from...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Revise and Revisit: Butterflies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand Information From Introductory Material, Headings, Etc.

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn how to develop an overview of the material using information gained from text organization to help predict content and make connections. They also to gather information from reading the introduction,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text With a Clear Thesis

For Students 7th - 9th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to focus on a thesis in an expository text in four lessons: Introduction, Opening Statement: Your Thesis, Maintaining Your Thesis...
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Handout
Harvard University

Harvard College Writing Center: Developing a Thesis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Superbly written explanation of thesis development. Use the links on the right to work through the writing process.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Thesis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to write an effective cause and effect thesis; it reviews cause and effect writing, lists signal words for cause and effect papers, explains what is required in the thesis, and provides three examples...

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