Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Awareness
This lesson focuses on audience awareness by recognizing and evaluating rhetorical approaches to building common ground. It also provides an example.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Tone, Language, and Appeal
This lesson focuses on using tone, language, and appeal to recognize and evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground. RI.9-10.4 word meanings/impact of choice
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Mechanical Monsters
In this lesson, students read the description of the mechanical dog from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and then work in groups to create and write descriptions of their own futuristic pet.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Football: College and Pro
This is a list of 22 vocabulary words and a variety of interactive puzzles and activities on the theme of football at the college and pro levels. A list of 310 football words is also provided.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Writing a Sentence Outline
In this learning module, students will learn how to write a sentence outline and then practice filling out an outline and writing their own outline for a speech.
Other
Study.com: How to Use Descriptive Details & Sensory Language in Your Writing
When you write a narrative, you can draw your reader into your experiences by adding specific, concrete details and sensory language to your storytelling. This lesson tells you exactly how to do it. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details,...
Other
Writing World: Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life
A great resource outlining four major ways to make settings appear more real and genuine in fiction. Deals with themes such as motion, experience, mood, and the senses. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Monsters
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 54 vocabulary words pertaining to monsters, creatures, or scary ideas. It also includes an extensive word list and lesson ideas on the same subject.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Origins & Meanings of Foreign Words & Phrases: English Ii Reading
In this lesson, you will be introduced to selective lists of words. These words can help enrich your language, deepen your understanding of what you read, and broaden your sense of the world.
Other
Short Story Elements
Geared toward high school students, this site contains many notes and links on the aspects of short story, figurative language, and figures of speech.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Case Against "Good" and "Bad"
Don't take the easy route! Instead, use this little trick to improve your writing -- let go of the words "good" and "bad," and push yourself to illustrate, elucidate, and illuminate your world with language. Free registration is required...
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Vi
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary V
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Iv
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Iii
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Ii
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Expression of Ideas
On the SAT Writing and Language Test, you will encounter a variety of questions that will ask you to revise and edit passages in different ways. This article gives tips and details about the expression of ideas part of the writing and...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays
This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping
A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! Agony of Defeat
A video clip asks students to explain how forces and motion affect the skier in the film. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Setting
This is a glossary entry for the term "Setting," the time and place a story takes place.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Synesthesia
This is a glossary entry for the term "Synesthesia" including a definition and links to more information and examples.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Personification for Stories and Descriptions
Students will use this writing prompt generator to create a personification story or description.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...