Curated OER
Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
Open Oregon Educational Resources
About Writing: A Guide
Ever wish writing was as easy as 1,2,3? About Writing: A Guide outlines the steps to successful writing. The guide begins by explaining the types of writing and then takes readers through the process. The guide even includes a section...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Comprehension: Monitoring for Understanding, Simple Summary
Can your class sum up a text in a few sentences? Help them build this skill by starting nice and slow. For this summarizing activity, the teacher marks the main ideas with sticky notes. Learners read and reread the text, pausing at the...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Oh My Word!
Ever come across an unfamiliar word while reading and can't decipher its meaning? Use a worksheet and graphic organizer that tracks and helps bring meaning to unknown words as learners read a text. A worksheet and graphic organizer come...
Mr. Ambrose
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good discussion questions, quizzes, and tests teach as well as assess. Readers of The Great Gatsby will learn much from the materials in a 36-page packet designed to help students prepare for the AP Literature exam. Included in the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3 (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will label sentences and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
You will label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
Label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.