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Your Dictionary: Teaching Essay Writing in Secondary Schools
This site focuses on teaching essay writing to high school students including the basic five-paragaph essay, tips for teaching essay writing, and examples of guides.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Persuasive Writing
This site has a great unit that leads students all the way through the writing process while composing a persuasive paper. Includes a teacher guide, mini-lessons, assessment rubric, and worksheets to help out at each step of the way.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 3.1: Expository Essay
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write an expository essay by providing evidence that supports a thesis, articulating concepts and information correctly and concisely, understanding the...
University of Wisconsin
Univ. Of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Thesis and Purpose Statements
Explains the thesis statement and distinguishes it from the purpose statement. Gives an example of a paragraph containing both. Be sure try the link at the bottom of the page, "Developing a Thesis Statement." This page goes into further...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 1.1: Descriptive Essays
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn everything you need to know about writing a descriptive essay including: using language that appeals to the five senses; understanding the difference between...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Eat: An Expository Slideshow Presentation
Students will write a three-paragraph essay explaining the steps necessary to follow a recipe and then present and serve the recipe to their classmates.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Formatting Science Reports
This site outlines the necessary elements of a scientific report. The site is broken down into the follow segments: title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion. Within each section is a contents section as well as a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creative Outlining?from Freewriting to Formalizing
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to write literary analysis essays about Edgar Allen Poe's ?The Fall of the House of Usher.? In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Amy Tan's
Contains plans for five lessons that use Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue" to teach about nonfiction and fiction as well as engage the issue of language and identity. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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Book Rags: Articles: How to Write a Compare/contrast Essay
Learn about two different ways to organize a compare and contrast essay and how each way looks in a paragraph breakdown.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: What Is a Myth?
Learn about myths from around the world in this self-guided unit while also learning how to construct a compare and contrast essay. Included are characteristics of creation myths, videos about Chinese and Egyptian myths, and a step by...
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