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Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
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Expository Writing
The beauty of the way this expository writing resource is structured is that the units can be presented as a complete writing workshop or sequenced throughout a course of study
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Write On! Step by Step Paragraph and Report Writing
Students plan and write paragraphs while integrating other core subject areas. In this paragraph writing lesson, students complete 5 lessons to practice writing paragraphs. Students incorporate various core subjects into their paragraph...
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Information Reports
Students practice essay skills. In this essay skills lesson, students select an essay subject and take notes for their topic. Students create a web for their essays. Students organize, write, revise, and publish their essays.
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The "Write" Stuff: Third Grade Strategies and Conventions
Students analyze the writing process through the ten lessons of this unit. The expository lessons address topic and detail sentences, paragraph organization and development, note taking, reports and letter writing.
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All About Me
Students write a paragraph, make lists, draw, and brainstorm things about themselves, their goals, and their past. In this all about me lesson plan, students recall information about themselves, and interview others in order to write...
English Language Support Programme
Traditional Irish Music
Celebrate sean-nós, céilí, and the lilting music of the Emerald Isle with a set of language arts activities! Learners complete word puzzles, vocabulary exercises, and comprehension questions about traditional Irish music.
Mr. Ambrose
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good discussion questions, quizzes, and tests teach as well as assess. Readers of The Great Gatsby will learn much from the materials in a 36-page packet designed to help students prepare for the AP Literature exam. Included in the...
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Texas Gateway: English Ii Writing: Revision Strategies
This is a unit including six different lessons on on English II Writing: Revision Strategies including the following: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language, Strengthen Sentence Variety, Parallelism, Evaluating and Revising a...
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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to practice recognizing sentences that need to be revised to add variety and revising sentences by using additions and sentence combining.
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Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on revision strategies to strengthen sentence variety including varying sentence beginnings, ending, combining with coordinators, and combining with...
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Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
Label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
You will label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3 (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will label sentences and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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Sjrc Writing Center: Parallel Structure Lesson
This site explains the topic of parallel structure. Numerous examples of sentences with parallel structure are provided.
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Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Parallelism
[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...
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Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising sentence variety and for sentence combining in an essay.
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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
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Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)
[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.
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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
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Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.