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Rewriting Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Have your learners play around with Shakespeare's language. In this plan, small groups examine and rearrange soliloquies from Othello, noting how the language changes and morphs. All groups have a chance to change each soliloquy, making...
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Twisted Tales

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Experience how a story can drastically change when the point of view is altered. Young scholars first read a review of Disney's film Tarzan, focusing on how the point of view in the classic story is important. They then select another...
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Passive Voice Exercises

For Students 7th - 12th
Strengthen understanding of grammar and syntax with this task. First, grammarians identify the active and passive voices, then they rewrite individual sentences to be in the active voice before manipulating an entire paragraph. Great...
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A News Story of Your Own: Sentence and Lexical Variety

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Given the two-sentence skeleton of a news story about a car theft/joy ride, budding writers create their own version of the story varying diction and sentence structure to heighten interest and complexity in their writing. Resource...
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Lesson Plan 18: Cleaning It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Careful proofreading is an important step in the writing process.  After guided practice using a provided worksheet that details common grammar concepts, young writers refer to the worksheet as they proofread their own work. Although the...
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Plagiarism in the Real World

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
How would you feel if someone plagiarized your work? After class members turn in an assigned newspaper article, you rewrite the piece using elements of their writing. Then you claim you will be selling the story and that you will profit...
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Slanted Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine biased words in news articles, suggest synonyms, then rewrite the sentences to demonstrate how word choice can alter meaning.
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Revising For Parallel Structure Worksheet 3

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar learning exercise, students read and rewrite the italicized part of twenty sentences to make each one parallel with the rest of the sentence.
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Wordiness Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten sentences eliminating extra words and combining short sentences into longer ones when necessary.
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BBC Learning English, Writing

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this proofreading worksheet, students correctly rewrite a passage that contains paragraph, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.
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Research Skills and Exercises

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite five sentences to eliminate the striking or catchy language and rewrite three student paraphrases to make each one grammatically correct.
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Faulty Diction Worksheet 2

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, learners rewrite twenty sentences making each one grammatically correct. Students rewrite all double negatives.
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Faulty Diction Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite twenty sentences with double negatives so each one is grammatically correct. Students share their rewrites with their classmates.
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Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students practice rewriting, adding on and combining fifty-seven sentences into compound sentences that convey more information and are grammatically correct.
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Dropped Endings and Verb Tense Worksheet 1

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar activity, students rewrite a paragraph changing it from present tense to past tense. Students check for omitted endings from nouns as well.
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Revising Paragraphs With Excessive Coordination

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite two paragraphs using various sentence structures to make each paragraph more coherent and interesting.
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Two-Word Verb Exercise 4

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten sentences using an expression different from the two-word verb phrase in each sentence.
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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 instructional activity, students rewrite a poorly written opening sentence. Students make changes to a closing paragraph.  Students write a plan for an...
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Social Movements in American Politics

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students explore American social movements. In this writing skills lesson, students read Orwell's "Politics and the English." Students then apply the rules for writing that are included in the piece. Students follow-up by completing a...
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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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Faulty Parallelism Worksheet 1

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students read two paragraph passages in order to find the five parallelism mistakes in each paragraph. Students rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Health: The Three Dimensions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the three dimensions of health, wealth, and happiness from both emotional and social perspectives. Among the week-long activities are discussions about good and poor habits, minimizing risks by proper planning and...
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Sentence Fragments: Exercise 2; Proofreading

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this grammar worksheet, students proofread 5 short paragraphs while looking for sentence fragments. They use the space below the paragraphs to rewrite them with the revisions.
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BBC Learning English, Writing (Tone)

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this writing worksheet, learners rewrite the informal business letter provided with the appropriate tone. This letter addresses possible employment in another country.

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