Why to young people act the way they do? Scholars investigate the stages of adolescent development incorporating high school psychology techniques. Using research from the American Psychological Association, they uncover the five areas...

How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an introduction, conclusion, and controlling idea or thesis in an essay.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for revising an essay so that it contains an effective introduction, conclusion, and controlling idea or thesis.

Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.

Explanations and examples of writing introductions and conclusions.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust your thesis so it accurately reflects the main idea of your essay. You will learn how to breathe life into a dead introduction...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an introduction, conclusion, and controlling idea or thesis in an essay.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on writing effective introductions and conclusions and tying them together. It also discusses varying sentence structures. Practice exercises are...

Explanations and examples of inferences and conclusions in reading and in understanding context clues to define unknown vocabulary.

This article provides an introduction to identifying strategies for writing effective introductions and conclusions. Click next on the bottom right to continue.

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...

This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...

This lesson focuses on writing conclusions; it lists and defines the parts of a conclusion: thesis recap, blueprint recap, and clincher and provides a sample of an effective conclusion with the parts labeled. It also offers a slideshow...

The activities in this lesson will help you focus on the important features of arguments, especially on the writer (or the source) and the evidence the writer provides. That way, you can more accurately decide if an argument is valid and...

In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. The two texts are side-by-side to better understand them.

Use this teacher's guide to plan how you'll integrate video clips, biosketch readers, and graphic organizers for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum across your Grade 1-2 classroom curricula. From guided reading to a living wax museum,...

Read a short text and then choose the correct inference, summary, or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the introduction which establishes the context for the information that will form the body of the essay, connecting the conclusion to the introduction,...

Briefly explains how the introduction and the conclusion work together. Then gives bulleted lists dealing with the introduction and conclusion separately. The conclusion list explains how to make a conclusion go beyond a mere summary...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are guided through a lesson to understand the difference between explicit information and conclusions drawn from a text. With free login, users have access to passages used in this lesson.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text "The...