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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Writing Conclusions Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains what a conclusion should do and gives strategies and suggestions for accomplishing that end. Includes examples. W.9-10.1e & W.9-10.2f, w.9-10.3e Conclusion, W.11-12.2f Conclusion
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Leaf Group

Classroom: How to Write Narrative Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on how to write conclusions for narratives by sharing a takeaway message, a lesson or a reflection -- a new discovery of meaning in life -- for your reader. W.9-10.3e Conclusion, W.11-12.3e Narrative Conclusion
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing a research paper. This guide explains to write a conclusions section.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This lesson is a final step towards supporting young scholars to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
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Harvard University

Harvard Univ.: Harvard College Writing Center: Ending the Essay: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource teaches how to write a conclusion for an essay. Also includes a few pointers on how not to end one.
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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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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on strategies for writing effective conclusions. It provides a list of strategies and a sample essay.
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Other

Canadaone.com: Sailing the Seven Cs of Effective Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Interesting article from Canadaone.com that outlines the author's seven C's of effective writing. Each of the concepts (all beginning with the letter "C") includes an explanation that demonstrates why the concept is important to the...
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: The Writing Center: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Offers strategies for writing conclusions, things to avoid, and examples of effective conclusions.
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides tips to writing a strong conclusion to an essay. The article discusses incorporating an anecdote, a basic summary, a startling summary, famous ideas, and/or hints to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Closing Up Our Writing by Summing Up the Main Ideas

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will write a strong concluding paragraph that summarizes the main ideas of a research essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction, Conclusion, and Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Effective Introductions and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising Expository/procedural Essay: Introduction and Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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.
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Organizational Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips to help students with essay organizational problems. The article suggests that students look at the essay's introduction, thesis, transitions, body paragraphs,...
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: How to Write Critical Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides the viewer with a step-by-step guide to writing critical reviews for non-fiction works. Its steps include analyzing the assignment as well as writing a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. Links to other writing...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Personal Narrative (English 7 Writing)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write a personal narrative with five mini-lessons: Introduction, The Plan, The Hook/Introduction, The Body/The Story, and The...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write an organized expository text in five lessons: Introduction, The Type of Burger: The Controlling Idea, Toppings: The...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized

For Students 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository text that is logically organized, with a controlling idea and an effective introduction and conclusion.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Introduction, Body, Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site shows students how to write an introduction, body, and conclusion to create a complete paper. Students see examples of two different types of introductions, get ideas for attention grabbers, gain understanding of the type of...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...

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