Writing Style Teacher Resources

A middle school student model of personal narrative writing. Includes a good writing style, examples, and very good notes and annotations as helpful aids for writing success. Points out the introduction, sequence of events and how they...

In this instructional activity each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published...

Before writing, students should listen to and discuss the writing style of the picture book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco. This seven-step, teacher-created instructional activity was inspired by the NNWP's Going Deep with...

After reading several animal poems by Ogden Nash, students imitate Nash's writing style to write animal poems of their own. Teacher instructions, printable graphic organizers, student instructions, student writing samples, and an idea...

A good introduction to dinosaurs for young Portuguese-speaking children. Uses an engaging writing style, cartoon-style graphics, and animation to teach about the Mesozoic era. Coverage includes types of dinosaurs and their features,...

Are you happy with your essay writing style? Could you improve your coursework marks? Check out these quick tips for essay writing from Cambridge University's English department.

Houghton Mifflin site has an entry that discusses major themes, historical issues, writing style, audience, and literary criticism for Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Contains discussion/study questions and a bibliography.

An excellent student model for tenth-graders of the comparison between a play and a film, this one for "A Streetcar Named Desire." Provides good writing style and structure, and also includes notations and helpful student aids for...

An online lesson students can click through to become more familiar with poets and their writing styles.

An essay by Richard Rodriguez dicussing the writing and impact of William Saroyan. Discusses Saroyan's writing style and his background and how they intertwine in his work.

30 classic fairy tales from India, as collected and published by Joseph Jacobs in 1912. The writing style is formal but readable and each tale is accompanied by Jacobs' original notes. Examples of tales included: The Gold-Giving Serpent;...

This site describes Basho's writing style, including his sense of humor. It also provides several examples of his poetry.

Explains the central role of calligraphy in Islamic art and architecture. Includes numerous illustrations of various writing styles and information about the development of calligraphy in the Islamic world.

An interesting, early work of Marx. It is helpful to see how some of his major thoughts and even his writing style, developed from, or against, this early work. Not for beginners, but interesting with some background.

A biography on Indian-Canadian author, Rohinton Mistry, author of novels "Such a Long Journey" and "A Fine Balance." Read about the author's education, his storytelling, received honours, and writing style.

Analyze the different perspectives presented by two authors telling the same story.

Lesson plan which helps students understand the impact of the literary element of style on a piece of writing. Students read and analyze the works of Ernest Hemingway and Nathaniel Hawthorne. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style,...

In this lesson, you will learn how to establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone by analyzing word choices and considering task and audience. [8:03]

Tables of words that show different types of sentence transitions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/transitions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion....

Resource acknowledges the changes in social awareness and how language is influenced by it. It presents suggestions as to how to avoid bias in writing. Some of the changes in terminology can have subtle differences in meaning. W.9-10.1d...

Use context to figure out how to use language appropriately--formality, irony, understatement, and overstatement.

A nine-slide presentation discussing how to use punctuation to create or reflect the author's style. W.9-10.1d Style/tone/conv

A list of three techniques used to develop sentence style: Sentence Variety, Sentence Emphasis, and Wordiness. Each technique links to more information.

This tutorial site provides links to articles about writing a scientific report or essay as well as to sample essays.