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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Revision in Business Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Persuades the reader of the importance of revision, and outlines the process of good revision: language, tone, organization, and correctness.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Elements of Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 2-page PDF of a chart that lists eight elements of poetry, questions to ask concerning each element, and tips and explanations to aid the understanding of each element. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Usage Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry provides the rules and examples for subject-verb agreement under a variety of situations such as with collective nouns, inverted subjects, compound subjects, indefinite pronoun subjects, and when a phrase or clause separates...
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Towson University

Towson University:online Writing Support: Self Teaching Unit: Avoiding Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This module focuses on what makes a sentence including parts of speech, subjects and predicates, and phrases and clauses. It then explains fragments and how to avoid them. It offers links to several exercises and a post-quiz.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms including definitions for each. It also provides links to lists of abbreviations, etc. by category including Titles of Literary Works, Books of the Bible, Legal Terms and...
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Kennings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Kennings" including multiple definitions and examples including links to more examples.
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University of Washington

Mary Nell's Summary on Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent summaries in table form of agreement issues, particularly those involving subjects and verbs.
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Vocabulary.com

The New Sat: Language of the Test List #1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 25 words from the directions and the questions on the New SAT. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Listing Key Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tip sheet offers questions and examples of how to develop key words to use in your research.
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English Club

English Club: Abbreviations: Initialisms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial defines the term initialism, a type of abbreviation, and then provides several examples of initialisms.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for Health, Nutrition & Pe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of interactive vocabulary activities based on health, nutrition, and fitness.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for Performing Arts & Fine Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of interactive vocabulary activites for performing and fine arts.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for Science & Math

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of interactive vocabulary activities for science and math.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for Social Studies & History

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of interactive vocabulary activities for social studies and history.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for Sports

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of interactive vocabulary activities for sports.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Vocabulary Word List for Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This page offers vocabulary over 50 word lists pertaining to Science.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Biology and Insects

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of 60 words used in a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities on the theme of Biology and Insects.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of 90 words on the theme of Chemistry used in a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of vocabulary puzzles and activities using a list of 16 vocabulary words pertaining to the Holocaust. It also provides an extensive wordlist on the topic (368).
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Elections, Word List & Cliches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 60 vocabulary words pertaining to elections. It also offers an extensive Vocabulary Word List for Election (393) and a list of election cliches.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Bill of Rights: u.s. Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has some puzzles and activities using terms from the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. It also provides an extensive word list pertaining to the Constitution.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Biology and Cells

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 15 vocabulary words pertaining to Biology and Cells. It also offers an extensive vocabulary word list for biology.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 20 vocabulary words pertaining to oceans. It also offers an extensive list of ocean and maritime vocabulary and some lesson plan ideas.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes