Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 21 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.1.A: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion,...

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...

This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.

Short slide show provides basic information about drawing Lewis dot structures for covalent compounds. Starts with anatomy of the atom, and then shows the relationship between atomic particles and the Periodic Table of Elements. Offers...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Parallelism in writing requires aligning words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in similar grammatical structures. This lesson will provide you with strategies to help you...

An explanation of atomic structure and the element groups in the periodic table using plain language. Supported by diagrams and charts.

This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...

This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and writing. It focuses on reviewing parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, parallel structure, and properly formating writing assignments using MLA guidelines. The essential questions focus...

Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions

Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.

Provides a wealth of interactive exercises dealing mainly with the structuring of sentences in different kinds of academic writing.

Excellent and in-depth site on how to write short, positive messages. Gives information on structure, pace, positive replies, announcements, and apologies (used as positives).

As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this site focuses on using various ways of writing for different purposes. For learning tools, the site includes a worksheet, a factsheet, and a quiz.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay organized appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions.

A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...

This slideshow lesson focuses on writing a reverse outline as a post writing strategy for assessing your paper for weak or missing aspects. It explains how to create the outline using a rubric if available and provides a skeletal example...

You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.

This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay organized appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.

Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.