Handout
University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: The Write Site: Evaluating Your Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This essay resource teaches students how to select the type of evidence that best lends weight and credibility to their topics and how to organize the evidence effectively. A chart is provided as a quick reference. Click on pages 2-4 at...
Graphic
Grammar Check

Grammar Check: Learn How to Write an Essay Like the Pros (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An infographic is provided to help students with writing essays. Explicit information about essay writing steps are included. Essay mistakes relative to the content and style are articulated, along with features specific to essays.
Activity
Other

Smalltown Marketing: How to Make a Super Brochure or Mailing Piece

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents information on the purpose of brochures, mistakes to avoid, how to write brochure copy, and how to structure brochure.
Activity
Randall Davis

Esl Net world.com: How Do You Write E Mail Messages?

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explains writing email messages in formal and informal style using Hotmail. It explains the steps taken in composing, replying to, and sending messages.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Speech Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn steps from the experts on how to write and deliver a great speech. There are tips and graphic organizers for writing. The final step is recording your speech on the Radio Hotline. Listen to other student writing as well.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Incorporating Questions in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to incorporate questions in a composition.
Handout
BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Listening to Others and Building on Arguments

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This resource explains how to listen carefully to someone to identify the points they are trying to make and how to use those points to add additional information to the discussion. Includes sentence starters to help frame what you want...
Article
Leaf Group

E How: So You Wanna Deliver an Effective Speech?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article which presents instruction and advice for every step of the speech writing process. Topic areas covered include: knowing your audience, organizing your speech, writing your speech, how to practice correctly, and handling...
Website
Other

Guitar Nine: So You Want to Be a Songwriter?

For Students 9th - 10th
As the title suggests, this column deals with songwriting. It does not tell you specifically how to write a song, but it does cover a lot of good information and advice and how to get started.
Activity
Other

Use the Correct Business Letter Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives information on the format, layout, and content of a business letter. Also includes examples of business letters.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Writing a Sonnet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes seven links to information, activities, and videos on how to write a sonnet.
Lesson Plan
Other

Curriculum Associates: Determining Theme or Central Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
For this reading comprehension lesson unit, students are guided in learning how to find the main theme or idea of a text and understanding how details in the text convey that. Includes lots of exercises and examples, as well as...
Handout
Caro Clarke

Caroclarke: Dialogue: The Best Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the fourteenth article in a series published with the goal of helping the new novel author. This article focuses on using dialogue to advance the action of the story. Links on the left offer other information about story writing.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Summarize Information

For Students 8th Standards
Learn what a summary is and how to write an objective summary of an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.
Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Paraphrase Craze: A Lesson in Expository Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on how to paraphrase using an excerpt from Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." It defines paraphrase and plagiarism, presents examples, and explains what is incorrect about them. It is interactive asking for...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Determining Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
On this website you will find information, two presentations, and a practice worksheet explaining how to decide the audience of a written piece and how to appeal to an intended or general audience in an original text....