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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Cooking Up Descriptive Language Designing Restaurant Menus

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to develop their descriptive writing skills by creating their own restaurant menus. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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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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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for three lessons that teach descriptive writing skills by creating and writing about a "100th day bottle." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for learners of all levels.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Developing Characters and Experiences With Sensory Language

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Adding sensory languages makes your writing so good you can see, hear, smell, taste and touch it. This lesson plan will show you how to use descriptive sensory language in order to develop and capture the experiences and characters in a...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Introducing Text Structures in Writing 5th Grade

For Teachers 5th Standards
This lesson engages students in learning about text structures. Graphic organizers are provided to assist students in planning writings that have the following text structures: problem and solution; sequence; cause and effect; and...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Mqed: Algebra the Write Way

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The two learning modules combine writing and mathematics. Topics included are algebra and descriptive statistics.
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fairly detailed list of steps to take, with descriptions of those steps, in order to write a good essay.
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: The Four Types of Writing Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Verbal Descriptions of Functional Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a problem situation containing a functional relationship, the student will verbally describe the functional relationship that exists.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Cosmic Oranges

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for four 45-minute lessons that ask middle schoolers to use their senses and focus their attention while writing descriptively and observing scientifically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Paraphrase, Summary, Description: Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of a summary and how to write one effectively.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Become a Character

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this online lesson plan and activity, students actually "become" a character from a novel in their analysis of characterization. The lesson plan uses the Scarlet Letter, but any novel can be used. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters,...
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Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: People and Characters in the Bible

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent resource from the UK. Features an extensive alphabetized list of Bible characters along with their descriptions. A site for finding and researching Bible personalities!
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W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Paraphrase, Summary, Description: Paraphrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information and examples for how to paraphrase a statement.
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EL Education

El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Colonists/pamphlets of Land Companies

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes an early descriptive writing form, the land pamphlet. Explains that these pamphlets were a form of travel narrative, written by those familiar with the land. The pamphlets were issued by the Virginia Company, the Masachusetts...
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EL Education

El Education: Book Trading Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This collection of trading cards was created by 5th and 6th graders at Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a choice-based fictional reading project. Each student selected a fiction book that he or she...
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Other

Math Lab: How to Write a Good Proof

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a brief description and an example of a paragraph proof. And remember, "there is never just one way of stating a proof," so others are mentioned as well.
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Other

Personal Site: Travel Literature in the Medieval Period

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nice description of the literary genre known as "travel literature" as it was seen during the Middle Ages in Europe. The author notes that many times, medieval writers would make up exotic creatures to entertain their readers.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Analysis: Process Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on process analysis including processes by people, machines, and nature. They can be classified as descriptive and prescriptive. It also includes a practice activity.

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