Activity
Other

Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Page Layout

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on page layout and more specifically the length of paragraphs and lines as found in emails.
Handout
Other

Technical Writing: The Conjunction Or

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Intended as a grammar reference for electrical engineers, this site addresses many of the technical issues of writing, including distinguishing between the inclusive and exclusive definitions of "or."
Unit Plan
Other

Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
Handout
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Grammar Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A glossary of grammar and linguistic terms along with definitions, example sentences, and links to additional information.
Handout
English Club

English Club: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial for abbreviations for the four main types of abbreviations and the ways to punctuate each.
Handout
English Club

English Club: Type

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
EnglishClub provides information about different forms of "type" on this resource. Functions of "bold" and "italics" are discussed.
Graphic
Other

Ideabook.com: The Language of Type

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ideabook.com supplies keyboard instructions (PC & MAC) to create various symbols for mathematics, commerce, finance, weights & measures, punctuation, & reference.
Activity
TES Global

Tes: Geography Key Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides a collection of 31 terms related to vocabulary about geography.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Report Styles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are able to interact with the flipchart to review acceptable styles for formatting reports and letters.
Activity
Free Management Library

Guidelines for Formatting Articles, Reports, and Papers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents rules and guidelines for formatting reports.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Use and Teach Content Vocabulary Daily

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Copying definitions from the dictionary and memorizing words for tests is not sufficient work for students to master and retain new vocabulary. This article helps teachers choose which words are most important to teach and suggests...
Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: The Parts of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section on sentences includes information on subjects and predicates as well as objects and complements. It provides a brief overview along with several examples of usage and links to parts of the sentence.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Learn

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive helps students learn the types of supporting details by having them type in the terms that fit the definitions.