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Paragraph Development Exercise: Analogy

For Students 9th - 12th
Apply analogy to paragraph writing. After reviewing what an analogy is and how it can be used, show your class the example. Writers can use the sample as a model as they compose their own paragraph that explains an idea through an analogy.
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Paragraph Construction

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
What is a paragraph? This question drives the PowerPoint. Viewers discuss important elements of a solid paragraph, transitions between paragraphs, and strategies for editing. Show this presentation and then look at an example paragraph...
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Spelling, Capitalization, and Punctuation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Elementary schoolers explore writing conventions. First they play a ball toss game to practice spelling high frequency words. (A link to a 2nd grade list is attached.) The class works together to correct spelling, punctuation, and...
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Arizona Statehood

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this Arizona instructional activity, learners draw a picture representing Arizona and write a paragraph about the picture. Students complete 1 picture and 1 paragraph.
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Car For Sale!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Car For sale! In this GED prep instructional activity, writers develop a classified advertisement to sell a car. After a discussion of precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language, sellers draft their ad for review,...
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Paragraph Building

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Build the skills your budding authors need to develop to compose well-structured paragraphs. Give them the topic sheet (included here), and have them write a cohesive paragraph using the ideas listed. Consider having them include two...
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Conversations about childhood

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Encourage your class to discuss their childhood with other classmates using the six questions listed here. After sharing their answers, learners write a paragraph detailing general information about their childhood. This plan is designed...
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Writing Topics

For Students 4th - 5th
Finding a topic that engages young writers can be difficult. The four prompts offered by this resource focus on pets. Whether it be writing a story about an imaginary pet or about preparing for a pet, your pupils will find something here...
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Introducing the Hamburger Model or Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A one-page template provides primary writers with a graphic organizer to assist them in drafting a persuasive paragraph. Labeled the “Hamburger Model” because of its appearance, the worksheet asks pupils to craft an introduction, provide...
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Bumper Stickers: A Matter of Focus

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Honk if you love bumper stickers! Long used as a persuasive tool, bumper stickers are used to launch this study of persuasive writing. Each class member is given a bumper sticker and asked to formulate three questions the strip might...
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English in Mind Unit 14: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this English grammar worksheet, students identify when to use should or shouldn't in a sentence, complete sentences in the correct order, and match questions with their answers. Students answer thirty six fill in the blank and...
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Energy Transformations

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this energy worksheet, students write a paragraph about the order of energy transformation by putting the chain words into the correct order. Students write 1 paragraph.
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Sentence Order: "Tell Me Why!"

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this sentence order worksheet, learners rearrange words to correctly put sentences together. Then they complete sentences in their own words. There are sixteen questions to complete.
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Module 3--Around the World

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this writing module worksheet, students fill out the opposites of eight adjectives describing towns/cities, fill in seven blanks in seven sentences with words from the word bank and write a paragraph comparing themselves to a friend...
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Hamburger Paragraph

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this writing a paragraph worksheet, students fill in the layers of a hamburger with a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a conclusion sentence. Students write a paragraph with 6-8 sentences.
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PPT
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Paragraphs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Here is a clever way for young writers to turn a classic nursery rhyme into a story with paragraphs. The final slide invites pupils to write a paragraph describing Miss Muffet, the Spider, the Spider's movements, her reaction, and the...
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Combining Sentences: The Dragonslayers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this combining sentences worksheet, students combine 2 sentences into 1, answer multiple choice sentences, and write a paragraph. Students complete 13 problems and write 1 paragraph.
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My Daily Life in Kansas

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use 'Read Kansas' cards to learn about the daily life activities of an Osage boy and a pioneer girl. In this similarities and differences lesson, 2nd graders write a paragraph and draw a picture comparing their daily life...
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A River, Dead or Alive: Native Americans and European Colonists' Treatment of a River

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students write an expository paragraph about the uses of the Nashua River for the Native Americans and the European Colonists. In this river uses lesson plan, students determine the causes and effects of both parties using the river.
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Fictional Characters

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fictional characters. In this fictional characters lesson, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Students also answer true/false questions about the character and make a mini book...
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Transcendentalism and Epiphany in Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the characteristics of transcendentalism. In this transcendentalism lesson, 12th graders determine what this type of writing entails before reading a passage from, Ray Bradbury's, Dandelion Wine. They cite three...
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Writing Structure and Paragraph Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students review the correct form for writing paragraphs.  In this paragraph writing lesson, students rewrite a poorly written opening sentence. Students make changes to a closing paragraph.  Students write a plan for an essay of five...
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Help With Paragraphs: Writing A Paragraph

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars complete exercises to practice writing a paragraph. In this paragraph writing lesson plan, students work in pairs to complete activities that require them to read sample paragraphs, organize sentences in sequence, and...
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On the Other Hand

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students discover how to write compare and contrast paragraphs. Students read the instructions and information, then write paragraphs comparing and contrasting 2 friends or family members.