Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Subject Verb Agreement
This lessons discusses challenges associated with subject verb agreement.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Alphabet Book [Pdf]
A ready to print and easy to use graphic organizer to help students plan alphabet books on any subject.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
This slideshow lesson focuses on the passive voice. It defines it, explains the effective uses of passive voice, discusses how to write effective sentences using passive voice, and provides examples.
Curated OER
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
The Library of Congress series biography of Phillis Wheatley also includes links to her selected writings.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Expand Thinking With Drama [Pdf]
The Center for Urban Education provides a graphic organizer for students to use as a planning tool. Students will write a play based on what they read or on the content they learn in other subject areas.
Curated OER
Bronze Inscription
This site from Logoi.com contains great information on the origins of Chinese writing. It covers such topics as: oracle bones, bronze inscriptions, and the beginnings of modern writing. This site is a great site to check out on the subject.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analytical Paper: Organization
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for an analytical paper.
Curated OER
Oracle Bone Inscription
This site from Logoi.com contains great information on the origins of Chinese writing. It covers such topics as: oracle bones, bronze inscriptions, and the beginnings of modern writing. This site is a great site to check out on the subject.
Curated OER
Bamboo Strips
This site from Logoi.com contains great information on the origins of Chinese writing. It covers such topics as: oracle bones, bronze inscriptions, and the beginnings of modern writing. This site is a great site to check out on the subject.
Curated OER
Howard and Grace
This personal site provides an interview with Howard Nemerov, third poet laureate of the United States. Interviewer is Grace Cavalieri, and this is part of her PBS series on The Poet and the Poem. The subject matter spreads from the...