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Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Unit Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Collaborative Booktalk: Sharing and Writing Development

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Are dark themes in young adult novels harmful or helpful to teens? Students will explore this question and will create an argumentative writing piece based on textual evidence. Videos of the lesson in action, examples of student work,...
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Other

Fdlrs: Thinking Maps: Examples From Brevard Public Schools

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
See examples of the use of the eight graphic organizers from Thinking Maps. These maps help students organize their learning and identify ways to reflect different kinds of text. The several examples from each grade K-6 show how to use...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Synthesizes Ideas

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to bring ideas together in an expository text in four lessons: Introduction, Analyzing Our Sources, Pulling Out the Major Points...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Advantages/disadvantages Essay

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This four-page essay provides an example of an advantages/disadvantages essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: "How To" Paper

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This three-page essay provides an example of an how-to essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Discursive (Analytical) Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short tutorial about discursive, or analytical, writing from a Scottish Standard Grade examination preparation site. Contains seven pages of information about the following: organising, essay examples, finding information, planning,...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Five Paragraph Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains what each paragraph of the five-paragraph essay, should do. Then gives a side-by-side analysis of a sample essay, pointing out aspects of the introduction and thesis statement, the paragraph-by-paragraph development, and the...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Frayer Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Frayer Model is a strategy that uses a graphic organizer for vocabulary building. This technique requires students to (1) define the target vocabulary words or concepts, and (2) apply this information by generating examples and...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Concept Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A concept map help students visualize various connections between words or phrases and a main idea. There are several types of concept maps; some are hierarchical, while others connect information without categorizing ideas.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inquiry Charts (I Charts)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) is a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing. Students integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found...
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Power Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes...
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SUNY Empire State College

Key Terms in Academic Writing: Key Terms in Academic Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a clear definition of what is expected in a definition essay. It also provides a link to a sample paper, with instructor's comments, as well as a link to the Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Intro Paragraph

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
How to write an introduction paragraph, including hook, background information, and thesis statement.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides an explanation of the compare and contrast text structure. An explanation of the compare and contrast text structure is provided, and the compare and contrast text structure is demonstrated in a video...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Persuasive writing is the topic of this article. Students will learn the parts of the persuasive essay and how to write an effective persuasive essay.
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Activity
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making an Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tip sheet on how to create and outline for a research paper.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Use Details and Examples

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Review how to use text evidence, details, examples, and personal experiences to make inferences then read a passage to practice on your own.
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Article
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Order of Importance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an explanation of the order of importance text structure. A diagram is provided to provide to supplement the explanation.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Planning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips for planning an essay. Links to additional information on the topics Assess the Situation, Think about Writing Ideas, How to Write a Thesis Statement, and How to Write an Outline are provided.
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Handout
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Constructing a Working Thesis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will find a thorough definition of a thesis. Non-examples of thesis statements are also provided.
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Other

Lcc: Comparison and Contrast: Culture Capsules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides links to eight comparison and contrast essays written by English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Each essay involves comparing and contrasting two different cultures or specific aspects in those cultures.