Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay
This lesson is a final step towards supporting students to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Choosing and Narrowing a Topic to Write About (For Research Papers)
This tutorial focuses on choosing a topic for research and then narrowing it down to a workable thesis statement. It starts with information about choosing a topic and the 3 steps involved and then provides 3 steps to narrowing the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising & Editing: Making Revising & Editing a Priority
This resource explores strategies for teaching students how to revise and edit content area writing. It contains original content from the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies: Focus on Writing professional development. Download and print...
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Further Your Understanding: Refutation and Rebuttal
This lesson focuses on examples of rebuttal and refutation to improve your understanding.
Princeton University
Collected Papers of Einstein: Vol 13: Berlin Years: Writings 1922 1923 Eng
A publication of Albert Einstein's written legacy presented in the English language translation. This translation volume focuses on his writings and correspondence from January 1922 through March 1923 while living in Berlin.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Audience and Writing Style
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
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...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Research Process: Writing Ethically
This lesson focuses on academic honesty and intentional and unintentional plagiarism including definitions and tips to avoid them. It provides three videos: "West Boca High School principal accused of plagiarism," "What is academic...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Reflective Journal Writing Tips for Students
This site focuses on reflective journal writing including the benefits to students, ways to deal with writer's block, and tips for journal writing.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Avoiding Shifts
This entry focuses on avoiding shifts when writing sentences including shifts in verb tense, mood, number, person, discourse, and sentence structure. It provides explanation and examples of each type of error and explanation and examples...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Conclusions
This lesson plan focuses on strategies for writing effective conclusions. It provides a list of strategies and a sample essay.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Prepositions
This entry focuses on prepositions, prepositional phrases, and particles including defining and providing examples of each. It also offers an explanation of the difference between prepositions and particles and lists of common...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Introductions
This lesson plan focuses on identifying and evaluating strategies for writing introductions.
Other
University College at Dublin: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation
Useful for research and for focusing on women's writing during this influential period, this article includes a lengthy bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: It Doesn't Have to End That Way
Literary response and prediction are the focus of this lesson plan. Knowing story structure is an important skill for literary analysis, and this gives teachers a way to help learners develop this skill. Includes links to web resources,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Possessives
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard use of apostrophes when using both singular and plural. It also provides a practice exercise.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4
Read the full text of volume four of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". This anthology focuses on debates four through seven of the infamous Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Cloud, Rain, and Fog
During these three days of lessons, 2nd graders will learn about weather from the nonfiction text by asking questions, and focusing on the text features of the book.
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The complete texts of several of Hawthorne's works are available here, including "The Snow Image," "The Blithedale Romance," "The Marble Faun," and "The House of the Seven Gables." The texts can be read online or downloaded by individual...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas With Non Essential Elements
This tutorial focuses on the use of commas in nonessential elements whether they are words, phrases, or clauses. Links to practice exercises are provided.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Subject Verb Agreement
This lesson focuses on subject-verb agreement; it provides the rules, examples of each, and links to several exercises and a post-test.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Commonly Confused Words: Lay / Lie
This entry focuses on the commonly confused words lay and lie including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to a quiz/exercise.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Increasing Comprehension Through Prediction Strategies
Contains plans for a lesson about predicting the outcomes of stories based off their first lines. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as...