BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Organization of an Ecosystem Aqa
This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Biological Classification: Organization of All Living Things
All living things can be identified by their placement in a biological classification table. Students will investigate the organization of all living things and learn how to classify through the process of classifying their own shoes....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Organization
This slideshow lesson discusses the organization of descriptive papers. It reviews descriptive papers, lists the three most common organizational patterns: least to greatest, greatest to least, and chronological. Determining which order...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
TES Global
Blendspace: Traits of Writing
A six-part learning module with links to videos, images, and a rubric about the six traits of writing: ideas, voice, organization, word choice, fluency, and conventions.
Yale University
Charter of the Organization of American States, 1948
The Avalon Project of the Yale Law School here provides the text of all 112 articles of the OAS charter, adopted at the Bogota Conference of American States, March 30-May 2, 1948.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Organization
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 53 secs] explaining how create an outline to plan the organization of a cause and effect essay. Following the lesson, a printable document provides an outline format for students to follow when writing their...
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Other
Friends University: Patterns of Organization and Their Clue Words [Pdf]
Chart lists patterns of organization with their corresponding clue words.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing
This effective tool for teaching persuasive writing contains thorough lesson plans which encourage students to take a stance and create arguments to support their position. Contains printable worksheets, rubrics, a PowerPoint...
Other
Writers Guild of America
This is the Writers Guild of America homepage. It is an organization for writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries. In addition to other services, the site provides a mentoring service for its members.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Scientists With the American Museum of Natural History
Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems
In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.
Boise State University
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Transitions
This University of North Carolina writing tutorial gives examples and how to use transitions and stresses the importance of organization. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
For this lesson, students will use the song "The 3 R's" by Jack Johnson to develop ideas about how to "green" up their own classrooms; they will learn two songs (written to the tune of old classics) that will inspire them to brainstorm...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust the organization of your essay to make it appropriate for different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Analytical Writing in the Content Areas
Because writing is thinking, the organization of students' writing reflects both the structure of their thinking and the depth of their understanding. Students should be writing in all their classes, explaining what they know and how...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Organization
This lesson focuses on the organization of argumentative papers and developing an outline for them. It begins with topic, stance, and thesis statement; next one lists each claim in order of appearance in a paper and two different...