Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing Inequalities to Describe Real World Situations
In this exercise, students practice writing inequalities to describe real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing Proportional Equations
Practice writing equations to describe proportional relationships. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Describe My Toy!
For this lesson 3rd to 5th graders learn to use adjectives and adverbs to write sentences and paragraphs describing students' favorite toys.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Expository Writing
This lesson focuses on expository writing including definitions, terms, sample expository essays, sequencing events into chonological order, and links to information about how to write expository essays.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing With Virginia Hamilton
Excellent site geared towards student writers interesting in learning how to journal. Follow Virginia Hamilton, an author, and learn her techniques from examples. Very comprehensive learning site.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing
This page gives students specific guidelines & tips for a descriptive writing assignment. Students can publish descriptive writing here, as well. A thorough teacher's guide to descriptive writing is also provided.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing Numerical Inequalities
Practice writing inequalities to describe real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing Proportions
Practice writing proportions to describe real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Exploring Adjectives Through Art and Creative Writing [Pdf]
In this activity, students will use adjectives to describe artwork and to develop descriptive language in creating interesting and unique stories.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Job Search Writing: Action Verbs to Describe Job Skills
Details about action verbs and why their use in describing skills, experiences, and accomplishments in employment-related documents is particularly effective.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mug for the Camera
Students are asked to describe the man from the clip for a police sketch artist because he had just stolen their purse/wallet.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
New York Times
New York Times: The Learning Network: Student Opinion Prompts
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of articles, regularly updated, on topics in the media. Each article presents an issue and asks students to describe their reaction to it and what their own opinion of the issue is....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Equations That Describe Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to write equations and check solutions.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher
In this project, students write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Hurricane Blowing In
Using Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using Science in an Inquiry Study
A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: Paradox Poetry
Jack Johnson's "Inaudible Melodies" creates an interesting paradox of how society perceives itself versus the reality of how society really behaves. After listening to a second song using paradox in order to further understand the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: My Adidas: Letting Your Possessions Tell Your Story
For this lesson, young scholars will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! A Big Pot
A short video displays several people stirring a large pot of stew, and the prompt at the end asks students to describe how they would make the same dish. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:38] W.9-11.12 Write Routinely
Rutgers University
Seeing and Describing
What an awesome way to practice describing art while using a computer to help! This site automatically displays an image for about 5 seconds and then you write what you remember about it on a separate sheet of paper. This is great...
Other
Western Michigan: Writing Negative Messages
This site describes the nature of writing short, negative messages. Gives information on general structure as well as how to write negative replies and announcements.
Other
University of Oregon: J333 Writing for Multimedia
A collection of resources for a course on writing for multimedia productions. Includes PowerPoints, documents, and links. The Syllabus section contains a course description and outline from the instructor. The course addresses topics...