If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing...

What do you imagine when you think of the sea? Put on some ocean sounds, close your eyes, and listen to a guided meditation based on the imagery from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. After class members listen to...

Sad, depressed, miserable, inconsolable, forlorn: so many synonyms have a lot of variety with their connotations. Through the guided imagery activity, writers explore the use of connotation and its influence on imagery and description by...

Close your eyes and picture a time where you decided to tell the truth to someone. What were you wearing? How did you feel? Such prompts begin a guided imagery activity for Zach's Lie. Directions for creating an environment conducive to...

Instructing learners on how to craft a good paragraph, a skill required of all writers, is the focus of a 23-page packet that includes directions, graphic organizers, exercises, and worksheets for guided practice. 

This review of a novel project is a great way to ensure accountability for independent reading. The assignment sheet, templates, samples, and rubrics are all part of the packet materials.

Reader's of Wildwood Dancing engage in a guided imagery exercise designed to encourage them to visualize the setting of Juliet Marillier's young adult fantasy novel.

In this newsletter activity worksheet, students read a book and complete a newsletter activity as a novel analysis project. Students include a newsletter title, advertisements, news story, and obituary.

This site by Empire State College explains the entire process of essay writing. It begins by defining what an essay is and continues then through the entire process, from prewriting to gathering information to shaping information to...

Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment,...

How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.

Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.

This Paradigm Online Writing Assistant site clearly explains freewriting and gives three practice exercises. Includes links to more writing help.

Prepare to write by analyzing the requirements for the culminating task product for the application unit.

Conduct research to gather additional evidence to prepare to write.

Revise the organization of your writing to a prompt to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic to help understand the task.

Prepare to write by previewing the culminating task for Romeo and Julie to help understand the task.

Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.

We will prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for A Lesson Before Dying guidebook unit. This will help us understand the task and prepare to gather evidence.

Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about the theme of isolation in A Lesson Before Dying.

This process seems very involved, but there are good ideas for getting started on your creative writing if you're stuck at the brainstorming stage.

A comprehensive and in-depth list of possible topics and ideas for research papers from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Show students how essential an outline is to writing a paper. This source provides explanations for writing an outline and information about how to create both formal and informal outlines.