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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students to write effective "hooks," or beginnings, to their writing. They read the introductions of fiction passages and analyze the techniques they use before applying these techniques in...
Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Ged Essay Writing Formula for Success

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students review the format for a five-paragraph essay, which is the second part of the GED Writing Test.
Handout
Indiana University

Indiana University: Writing Services: Incorporating Evidence Into Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout explores how to effectively incorporate evidence to support your claims into your paper. It provides weak and strong examples to show effective ways to incorporate evidence clearly and cohesively. W.9-10.1c...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Character Clash: A Mini Lesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for a minilesson that teaches about proper dialogue format while writing, specifically paragraphing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Paragraph Development

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Capital Community College helps with paragraph development and topic sentences.
Activity
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Persuasive writing is the topic of this article. Students will learn the parts of the persuasive essay and how to write an effective persuasive essay.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Errors in Body Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over common issues in body paragraphs.
Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: How to Write a Review of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explores the writing of an analytical essay in terms of a review of literature. The site provides guidelines for students to follow when writing the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. It also offers links to useful...
Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
Handout
University of Richmond

University of Richmond: Transitional Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a list of transitional words and phrases organized by their function in a sentence or paragraph. Because they are organized under such headings as "providing an example" and "showing conclusions," it is easy to find an...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides persuasive essay graphic organizers. Students will be able to write a persuasive essay more efficiently by using these tools.
Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: The Poet's Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org presents the text to Amy Lowell's essay, "The Poet's Trade." The essay is two paragraphs in length and links to related essays are also provided.
Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From the University of Victoria's writing tutorial site, this section provides a multiple-paragraph discussion of point of view.
Article
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Post Colonial Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Priyamvada Gopal takes a post-colonial perspective on Shakespeare's plays. Particularly useful for students studying one of the following plays: Othello, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice and Antony and Cleopatra. This article may...
Article
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Shakespeare and Love

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short article looking at the ways in which Shakespeare has been portrayed in the film 'Shakespeare in Love,' and in Oscar Wilde's story, 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H.' This would be particularly useful for encouraging students to think...

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