PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Reach: Recipe for Writing!
REACH for more! Be an author! Write and illustrate your very own story by mixing up a simple recipe of WHO, WHERE, WHAT, and ENDING.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Grade 1 on Demand Opinion Writing Samples
This collection of opinion essays prompted first graders to write about a "best pet." From the Vermont Writing Collaborative, with Student Achievement Partners and CCSSO, these written pieces are part of the In-Common: Effective Writing...
TES Global
Blendspace: Opinion/persuasive Writing 3rd Grade
A collection of resources that includes videos, images, activities, and graphic organizers to use while learning to write opinion and persuasive pieces.
TES Global
Tes: Leaflet Writing Frame
[Free Registration/Login Required] This writing assignment provides a blank template for students to use when writing a leaflet. The template can easily be modified to the requirements of the assignment.
TES Global
Tes: Sub Levelled Writing Targets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Downloadable writing targets for grades two through five. Each writing target begins with "I can."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Review: Writing Basic Expressions Word Problems
Four practice problems writing expressions from a word problem. Students are able to check their answers, view a solution, or watch a video for assistance.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: American Flag History
In this cross-curricular activity, young scholars create a trading card based on the symbols of the American flag, or any other national landmark. Writing for a specific purpose helps students carefully select their word choice.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Adverbs
This Writing Center guide features a survey of adverbs and their use and position in a sentence.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing Prompts and Journal Topics
This site has hundreds of writing prompts/journal topics to get students started writing. Topics like "what is" and "what if" will get students thinking about what they could write.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Double Bubble Fun!
In this instructional activity, students compare two texts written by the same author, Leo Lionni. Then they will write an opinion piece on which story is their favorite and why.
TES Global
Tes: The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this PowerPoint lesson, each student will learn how to write a letter that requests a pardon for a personal mistake made. Each student will reply to a letter from a classmate and serve in the...
TES Global
Tes: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: Approaches to the Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete seve-week lesson plan to teach Coriolanus by William Shakespeare including an introduction to the social, historical, cultural background of the play, character studies of Coriolanus...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Commas With Nonessential Elements Exercise 3
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with placing commas in sentences that have nonessential elements in them.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Late to Class
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer. Students will be able to respond in writing to an explanatory writing prompt. This tool may be used as a reflective writing prompt for students who are late.
Other
Mr Behm: Claim, Reason, & Evidence
Improve your writing skills by learning about claim (argument), reason (logical support), and evidence (proof). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
TES Global
Tes: Prose: Short Stories
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this downloadable learning module, students will write a short story. Students will refer to the grading rubric to help them self-assess their writings. Students will revise and edit
Columbia University
Tips: Leads
One page document gives important pointers on writing news story leads. Part of a Columbia University site.
Aaron Shepherd
Forty Fortunes, a Tale of Iran (Reader's Theater)
A reader's theater version of a folktale from Iran for 11 players, ages 8 and up. The performance length is ten minutes. Adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his picture book "Forty Fortunes." You will find links to name...
Other
The Business Writing Center: Passive and Active Voice
Learn about active and passive voice and practice changing passive voice sentences into active voice.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Narrative Grading Rubric [Pdf]
This site provides four versions of rubrics for narrative writing. The rubrics provide the following assessment categories: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, fluency, conventions. A 6-point rubric, a 5-point rubric, a 4-point...
TES Global
Tes: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson plan base on William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, students will write a literary analysis of the one of the book's favorite quotes.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Fragments and Types of Sentences
Ten questions asking students to identify the difference between complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
Other
New York State Education Department: Eighth Grade Math, Book Three (2006) [Pdf]
Part three of three; The March 2006 8th grade Math test from the State of New York. The test is 12 open-response questions dealing with topics such as algebra (solve for a variable, write function rules), geometry (translations, parallel...
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