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Cover Letter/Letter of Introduction Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students compose cover letters. In this writing skills lesson, students follow the provided steps to write cover letters that introduce them to potential employers.
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Writing a Letter of Recommendation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compose letters of recommendation. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters of recommendation and then write their own letters.
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Examining Letters to the Editor

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students write letters to the editor. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters to the editor and use the active voice to compose letters to the editor about issues in which they are interested.
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Letters of Inquiry

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compose letters of inquiry. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters of inquiry about sites in Washington, D.C. Students then write their own letters of inquiry to the Washington, D.C. Chamber of Commerce.
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Letter to the Editor

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze and interpret letters to the editor, and use this information to write their own. Groups of students analyze letters, then submit one of their own design to an actual newspaper.
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Examining Letters to the Editor

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars write letters to the editor. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters to the editor and use the active voice to compose letters to the editor about issues they are interested in.
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Cover Letter: Completing and Organizing Your Personal Job Portfolio

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners work on their career portfolio. For this written communication lesson, students discuss the purpose of cover letters, read sample cover letters, and then write their own.
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Persuasive Elements

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Investigate letters to the editor and their persuasive qualities. Break your class into reading groups and give each one a different article. As they read, they complete a graphic organizer to record their thoughts and opinions. There is...
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Correspond, Don't Compliment

For Students 9th - 12th
In this reading and writing analysis worksheet, students analyze reader's responses to authors. The goal is for students to determine if the letters are appropriate analytical correspondence or simply letters full of compliments.
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You Be the Judge

For Students 10th - 12th
In this reading analysis and writing analysis worksheet, students review their previous skills and judge a letter for its strengths and weaknesses. The three paragraph letter has some grammatical errors, but the goal is to determine the...
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Learn the Steps to Clear Essay Writing!

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Introduce your young writers to the five-paragraph expository essay format with a four-page worksheet that uses color codes to model for writers how to craft the essay. Although designed to prepare writers for the GED, the approach can...
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The Lead Paragraph - How to Hook the Reader in 25 Words or Less

For Students 9th - 12th
In this reading and writing analysis worksheet, students read a sample letter that hooks the readers. The students then discuss and adjust three other writing samples to make them more interesting.
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Redistricting: Drawing the Lines

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Difficult redistricting concepts are covered in a context that will make it understandable to your government scholars. They begin with a KWL on the term redistricting and then watch a video to answer some questions. They analyze...
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Lesson: Paul Chan: Alternumeric Fonts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learning to analyze language, symbols, and codes is part of becoming a deep and critical thinker. Young analysts consider their ability to see hidden messages as they analyze the work of Paul Chan. There are two fully developed...
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Writing Letters for Human Rights

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students draft and edit a letter regarding human rights. They work in groups to select a cause, follow basic letter writing guidelines and draft a persuasive letter expressing their concerns. Students can also send the letters to a...
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Reporting in Letters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the cultures and politics of different countries and write radio letters to listeners in those countries modeled after Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America."
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Preparing a Personal Letter

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine the parts of a personal letter. In this language arts lesson plan, students view examples of personal letters and write a personal letter.
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Narrative Lesson Plan Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Narrative writing lessons can inspire students to write about and share their experiences.
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Developing an Outline

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
A lot of writers don't like creating an outline before writing the first draft of their paper. Introduce them to what an effective and organized outline looks like with this presentation. Designed for higher education, you could easily...
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Oral History: Park City Museum

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Bring U.S. history to your language arts class with this lesson. Middle schoolers complete an interview for an oral history project, and discuss the importance of oral histories - and how they embellish written accounts. They write...
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BBC Learning English, Writing (Tone)

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this writing worksheet, students rewrite the informal business letter provided with the appropriate tone. This letter addresses possible employment in another country.
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Writing Applications: Different Types of Writing and Their Characteristics

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders rewrite a story in a different format to understand the effects of the author's style. In this writing style lesson, 12th graders read Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and rewrite the...
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Gas Money

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write, edit and produce resum??s and cover letters in final form.
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Test Your Creative Writing Skills: The Great Alphabet Challenge!

For Students 5th - 12th
In this creative writing worksheet, students will take the great alphabet challenge. Students will write a sentence or group of sentences where the first letter of each word starts with successive letters of the alphabet.

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