Unit Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Narration

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers for narrative writing. Students will be able to prewrite and draft their narrative writings more efficiently by using these tools.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides persuasive essay graphic organizers. Students will be able to write a persuasive essay more efficiently by using these tools.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of customizable graphic organizers. Students will be able to engage in "during reading" strategies and writing process graphic organizers.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for writing. Elaborate graphic organizers for the following areas are provided: persuasive essays, expository essays, paragraph writing, fiction pieces, narrative writing,...
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography Writer's Workshop

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial has students follow a step-by-step guide to write their very own biography using that of Frederick Douglass as a model.
Handout
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies: Expository Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has eight basic steps for writing expository essays: select topic, write the thesis, choose a method of development, organize, write topic sentences for body paragraph, write the body paragraphs, write an introduction, and...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Conflict: Lesson 6

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the range of ways conflict can occur in the world. It is 6 of 7 in the series titled "Types of Conflict."
Interactive
Other

One Word: Writing Prompt Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online tool provides a one-word writing prompt and gives the user 60 seconds to write freely on the topic. Note: If you choose to submit your writing at the end of the exercise (not required), One Word may edit and/or republish this...
Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Essay Writing Rubrics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of essay assessment rubrics are provide on this learning module. Several rubrics for narrative essays, persuasive essays, and research papers are provided on this site.
Article
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Narrative Essay Topics and Story Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of 101 narrative essay topics, short story ideas, and narrative writing prompts are provided on this site. Links to related narrative topics are also provided. W.11-12.3 Narratives, W.11-12.3a Narratives
Activity
Other

Tikatok: Imagine a Story: Create a Book

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Tikatok is a tool for creating storybooks using your own text and images. It is free to join, but there are fees when you order a completed book. E-books can be downloaded fairly cheaply. Printed copies cost more. The value in the site...
Activity
Other

Tikatok: Imagine a Story: Create a Book

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Tikatok is a tool for creating storybooks using your own text and images. It is free to join, but there are fees when you order a completed book. E-books can be downloaded fairly cheaply. Printed copies cost more. The value in the site...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Peer Review: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses the peer review process and how to give an effective peer review. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Peer Review."
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 20 Ways to Double Your Writing Productivity (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This infographic is provided to help students with writing a novel. Tips from famous authors are included to help students write efficiently and confidently.
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: The 10 Step Guide to Proofreading Essays Quickly (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This infographic is provided to help students with proofreading essays. Students will learn common essay writing mistakes and how to fix them. Students will also find fast and easy essay writing tips. Students will learn how to quickly...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: Copywriting 101: How to Craft Compelling Copy (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This infographic provides copyrighting tips. The author provides ways to optimize a copy.
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 10 Common Blog Writing Mistakes (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic is provided to help students with writing a blog. This site is geared toward those who are keeping a personal blog and for those who are trying to attract followers and customers.
Activity
TES Global

Tes: Writing Task Sheets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource includes a collection of ten different task sheets for independent work on particular writing skills. Each worksheet provides practice for one aspect that will help improve student writing.
Activity
TES Global

Tes: Writing: A Poetry Resource by Dorothea Smart

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can use this activity to help them generate ideas for poetry. An example poem is provided.
PPT
TES Global

Tes: Travel Writing Sow

For Students 4th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 100-slide PowerPoint presentation will guide students through a descriptive writing task. Students will be write extensive pieces about a travel experience.
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TES Global

Tes: Assessing Pupil Progress in English: Writing

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint provides exemplar pieces to guide students to understand how to revise a standardized, on-demand writing assessment piece.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: "I Feel" Origami Boxes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Give your students writing prompts to help them with their writer's block by using these PDF templates of boxes with open-ended prompts written on them. Although targeting elementary students, the concept could be used for middle school...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Students will then write a...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Determining Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
On this website you will find information, two presentations, and a practice worksheet explaining how to decide the audience of a written piece and how to appeal to an intended or general audience in an original text....