Get the scoop with a fun, engaging newspaper project. After analyzing the parts of a newspaper, including the headline, subtitles, and pictures or images, young journalists get to work by writing their own stories in a newspaper article...

Take an in-depth look into Gary Paulsen's Hatchet with a concept guide. With a list and explanation of thematic motifs, types of conflicts, and vocabulary in the novel, learners will engage with the text in a whole new way.

Focus on plot and the impact-specific events in The Cay. Class members use their double-entry journals, created in a previous lesson in this series, to record their thinking about the guiding question as they read chapters 15 through 17....

You want your class to meet all of the Common Core standards, and here is one way to tackle the first speaking and listening standard. Given a theme to focus on from "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy, small groups come up...

This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions for types of text structure, organizational patterns, and keywords and graphic organizers for the types of text structures.

This interactive set of flashcards help students learn the types of text structure, organizational patterns, and signal words for each pattern of organization.

In this interactive game, students match the types of text structure to their descriptions.

This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions of the types of text structure

In this learning game, students match the term with the description of the types of text structures and patterns of organization.

This set of interactive flashcards helps students learn the terms and definitions for the types of text structure and patterns of organization.

In this interactive game, students match the terms for the types of text structure to the correct descriptions.

This interactive set of flashcards helps students learn the terms and types of text structures and patterns of organization.

In this interactive game, students match the types of text structure to their definitions.

In this interactive game, students match the terms for the type of text structure to their definitions.

Not sure what a definition paper is? This is a great site from the Capital Community College to help you with developing a definition. Includes a sample essay and guiding questions.

Need help with doing a descriptive paper or personal narrative? Need a writing lesson plan? Meet Virginia Hamilton and follow her step-by-step guide to writing. When done, you are eligible for a certificate signed by this author.