Investigate prewriting activities in this brainstorming lesson. Middle schoolers are divided into groups and are assigned a topic. They decide which prewriting technique to choose from, including free write, looping, brainstorming,...

Students choose a short story and role play one of the characters in the story. They interview each other about the character they are playing to research them.

Students investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...

Now is the time to identify the great teachers in your school! Discuss the characteristics of persuasive writing and analyze an example. Then, each pupil chooses a teacher who they feel should be named teacher of the year. They plan and...

Students visit appropriate websites to discover quotes from Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac. Working in pairs, they choose three quotes on which to elaborate and then write two original quotes.

Students solve various word problems that deal with common denominators, and write the mathematical explanations they used to obtain the solutions.

Students create a story about an unknown planet invaded by humans as a pre-reading activity for the novel, A Wrinkle In Time. They discuss good versus evil, and identify examples of the theme good vs. evil in books, film, and their own...

Students write a brochure that educates incoming middle school students on how to succeed.

Students examine the Florida Writes! Rubric and discuss the basic elements of the scoring system. In small groups, they use the rubric to discuss and score several student essays.

Students read a current science article. They write a summary of the article, take notes, write and edit a summary, and print their work.

Students choose a subject for a biographical research paper. They use books, the Internet, encyclopedias and articles to gather information on a determined subject then follow a rubric to write a research paper.

Middle schoolers use a story starter and given questions to continue their adventure. They use the Internet and books to research about winter survival skills, how to find food, water and shelter in the snowy mountains and discover...

A practice exercise with ten questions. Each question has three sentences and students are asked to choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked when finished, and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.

An exercise where students read ten sets of three sentences and chooses which sentence in each set is a complete sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any that were missed.

A ten-question practice exercise where students look at a set of three sentences and then choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.

A five-question quiz where students are asked to determine if each group of words is a complete sentence or a fragment. Immediate feedback is provided for each answer and a percentage score is tallied and displayed throughout the quiz.

Ten questions asking students to identify the difference between complete sentences and sentence fragments.

An exercise providing five sentence fragments that students are asked to revise and rewrite by adding a subject or a predicate. Students can check their answers when finished, and possible answer choices are provided.

Practice sentence skills by looking at each sentence in a passage and deciding if it is a complete sentence or a fragment.

Practice sentence skills by choosing the correction that will turn in each fragment into a complete sentence.

Practice sentence skills by choosing the correction that will turn in each fragment into a complete sentence.

Practice sentence skills by choosing the correction that will turn in each fragment into a complete sentence.

Practice sentence skills by choosing the sentence fragment in each of 20 passage.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart that introduces the four types of sentences and then works on complete and incomplete sentences.