Students respond to a writing prompt using appropriate letter format. For this letter writing lesson, students discuss the format for letter writing and use the worksheet format to write the heading, inside address, and salutation....

Fourth graders produce and peer edit typed rough drafts of the business letters following the guidelines illustrated in the Eight Essential Parts of a business letter and save to disks. They complete the Where's the Math? scavenger hunt...

Fourth graders investigate math in the real world using internet search methods to locate career fields of interest. They select an occupation, and draft brief paragraphs that reflect insight as to why that occupation interests them.

Third graders write an essay which answers the question, "What kind of student do you want to be?"

Pupils discuss the pros and cons of being deserted on an uninhabited island. Then they write their own survival stories and complete a story jacket.

Students choose a subject for a biographical research paper. They use books, the Internet, encyclopedias and articles to gather information on a determined subject then follow a rubric to write a research paper.

Students use a story starter and given questions to continue their adventure. They use the Internet and books to research about winter survival skills, how to find food, water and shelter in the snowy mountains and discover information...

Ninth graders read and analyze The Odyssey. They apply note-taking skills to identify enemy, type of enemy, and traits demonstrated throughout the book. Students create a storyboard that illustrates the selected episode from the book...

Fourth graders view a teacher-made PowerPoint presentation on how photoelectric devices work, and then they answer FCAT-like questions on the material presented. They answer questions about what they viewed in an assignment imbedded in...

Fourth graders interview people from three different age groups about superstition including what they believe and why they believe it. This lesson goes along with the classic book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Sharpen your use of the formal conventions of English with this self-guided learning module. The module focuses on formal and informal language, making pronouns agree with their antecedents, and common spelling and grammar errors. At the...

A quiz, designed for business writers, that tests knowledge of words which are frequently misspelled. It includes questions about two words which are spelled differently in British spelling than in American spelling.

Do you say or write "exscape" when you should say "escape"? This webpage is from the Common Errors in English website. If you think other people's language mistakes are sometimes funny, you might enjoy reading the ways people have...

This EnglishClub tutorial provides a list, with brief explanations, of the most common writing mistakes made among English as a Second Language students.

This Washington State University page lists the correct spelling for hundreds of commonly misspelled words. The list is in paragraph form and does not provide correlated misspellings.

This tutorial teaches standard rules of capitalization and common errors. It offers a PowerPoint presentation over the rules for capitalizing proper nouns and information on capitalizing abbreviations with examples. This is followed by...

This site provides a grammar reference for students. The rules for using dashes, commas, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, and conjunctive adverb are included. Topics including subject-verb agreement, how to proofread, and twelve...

Vocabulary and grammar drills including quizzes on commonly misspelled words, irregular nouns and more. Quizzes range from beginning to advanced.

This site offers two proofreading exercises in which students proofread for errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and usage, and then retype passages correctly. When finished they click Answers for feedback.

This 12 question quiz asks students to select the correct words to fit in sentences. Java is required.