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Effective Writing is More Than a Five Paragraph Essay
Groups become experts in one aspect of the six traits of writing, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, jigsaw, and teach others about their trait. Writers then focus on these traits as they compose a persuasive essay about a person they...
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Back to School: Style Analysis
Jump back into expository writing and analysis at the start of a new school year! Start with a review of an authors' stylistic choices in diction, syntax, treatment of subject matter, and figurative language. Writers choose a text to...
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Figurative Language in Poetry and Prose
Students examine the impact of sound devices in poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, students read the listed poems and identify uses of hyperbole, simile, metaphor, imagery, and personification. Students discuss how sound...