This book was created by 3rd grade students from the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts. A Historical Walk through Massachusetts was created as part of a learning expedition on colonial history. Through...

This assignment requires you to write about your own life, your family, and the things that are influencing you so far in your personal journey. The result will be a short autobiography of your own and hopefully a little more...

Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps learners recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.

In this self-directed study involving research, composition, and presentation, students analyze Chaucer's characters of The Canterbury Tales as presented in the Prologue. Each student casts a modern personality in the role of one of the...

After research in the Alabama Virtual Library, students will write a paragraph essay and use an online citation utility to create bibliographic citations for an online encyclopedia, an online magazine, and a print resource. Copying and...

Links to essays on poetry, literature, writing and reading by Dana Gioia.

Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, young scholars create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.

This lesson plan includes activities associated with the book Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride. Because Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt were both a great deal alike, it made perfect sense that the two women were friends. In April...

Links to 40 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 11 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.2.B: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details,...

The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.

This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.

A list of children's book titles and authors that offer good examples for students to follow when learning to write both narrative and expository texts. Being arranged according to the six traits of good writing makes it easy to find the...

This lesson introduces exposition in fiction writing.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations. It includes a variety of practice exercises.

Ampersand: the student journal of school & work is a compilation of essays written by students at High Tech High Media Arts in San Diego, California. All students at this school complete an internship with a local organization during...