ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cooking Up Descriptive Language Designing Restaurant Menus
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for learners of all levels.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics
A fairly detailed list of steps to take, with descriptions of those steps, in order to write a good essay.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Word Choice: Lesson 2
A slideshow introducing the topic of word choice and discussing its importance.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Adjectives Around Us
Young scholars will make a photo story book using Flickr pictures.
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.4.5 Worksheets: Explain Major Differences Between Poems, Drama
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 8 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard RL.4.5: Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to...
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton & Company: Paraphrase, Summary, Description: Paraphrase
Information and examples for how to paraphrase a statement.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: How to Listen Better
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Check out this site to learn more about the 1936 Newbery award-winning book Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink. This site provides a description of the book, a discussion guide, a writing prompt, and more.