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Re:fiction: Making Ends Meet: How to Write a Good Ending to a Story

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This article from Re:Fiction magazine offers tips on different ways to end a piece of narrative writing.
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Better Lesson: Closing Up Our Writing by Summing Up the Main Ideas

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will write a strong concluding paragraph that summarizes the main ideas of a research essay.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Alternative Plots for Robert O'brien's Z for Zachariah

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson in which students are required to write an alternative plot to O'Brien's science fiction novel. Includes an interactive graphic organizer, handouts, and a rubric.
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Education.com: W.3.1.d Worksheets: Provide a Concluding Statement or Section

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 12 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.1.B: Provide a concluding statement or section.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Good Endings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan explores endings and conclusions to children's literature in an attempt to teach how to successfully write a good ending. Included in the lesson plan are an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Better Lesson: W.4.2e: Provide a Concluding Statement or Section

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 3 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2e: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing an Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tip sheet on how to write and develop an introduction to a research paper.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
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Better Lesson: W.3.1d: Provide a Concluding Statement or Section

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 11 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1d: Provide a concluding statement or section.
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Sonic Storytelling: Writing Method for Radio Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article is filled with tips for beginners on how to write radio drama sketches or adapt stories into radio plays. You'll see examples of sketches as well as tips on writing well. W.9-10.3, 3a, 3b Narratives, W.11-12.3, 3a, 3b...
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies: Expository Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has eight basic steps for writing expository essays: select topic, write the thesis, choose a method of development, organize, write topic sentences for body paragraph, write the body paragraphs, write an introduction, and...
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Education.com: W.4.3.e Worksheets: Provide a Conclusion for a Narrative

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 7 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.3.E: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...
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E Reading Worksheets: Writing Narrative Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides the components of narrative writing. The author emphasizes ways to make narrative writing better. W.9-10.3e Conclusion
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Better Lesson: W.3.3d: Provide a Sense of Closure

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 6 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3d: Provide a sense of closure.
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Education.com: W.3.3.d Worksheets: Provide a Sense of Closure

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 12 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3.D: Provide a sense of closure.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Openings and Endings

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips involved in writing both openings and endings.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writing a Personal Narrative [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A middle school student model of personal narrative writing. Includes a good writing style, examples, and very good notes and annotations as helpful aids for writing success. Points out the introduction, sequence of events and how they...
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing the Body of a Research Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and create the bulk of a research paper: the body includes in-depth information, examples, as well as links to earlier steps in the process such as thesis statements, notecards, outline,...
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Livingston: Basic Guide to Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial lists and discusses the steps to writing a good essay and provides a downloadable guide. It also allows you to view a sample essay. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will examine the relationship of man and nature as portrayed in "The Open Boat," based on Crane's suffering from a shipwreck on The Commodore in which he spent thirty hours on a small boat at sea before being...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Organizing an Exploratory Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout focuses on organizing exploratory or inquiry essays including the introduction, the body paragraphs, and the conclusion. W.11-12.2 Informative
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W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Elements of the Essay: Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click through an overview of how to structure an essay, including the introduction, body, and conclusion. Use the list on the right side to learn all of the elements of an essay.
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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...

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