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Better Lesson: Come Along Daisy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will engage in discussions about story details and write an informational piece about the events in the story "Come Along Daisy".
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Mice Squeak, We Speak

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story; "Mice squeak, We speak". Included in this lesson are examples of student work, videos of oral presentations, and puzzle pieces for new...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story "Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?". Included in this lesson are videos of mother and baby animals, pictures of the lesson in action, and a video of...
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Other

Allwritewithme: Rubrics & Checklists for Fourth Grade Informative Writing

For Teachers 4th Standards
This collection of rubrics and checklists can be used for formative and summative assessments. Students can use many of these to self-assess during various phases of the informative writing process, and teachers may use these to guide...
Handout
University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: The Write Site: Evaluating Your Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This essay resource teaches students how to select the type of evidence that best lends weight and credibility to their topics and how to organize the evidence effectively. A chart is provided as a quick reference. Click on pages 2-4 at...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: Learn How to Write an Essay Like the Pros (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An infographic is provided to help students with writing essays. Explicit information about essay writing steps are included. Essay mistakes relative to the content and style are articulated, along with features specific to essays.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Essay Writing Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
All you want to know about writing essays, from prewriting to editing. Click on the tip-o-matic and find tips on anything dealing with grammar or writing.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides 30+ graphic organizers to aid in planning and writing. Students will be able to write informational pieces and literary responses.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Speech Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn steps from the experts on how to write and deliver a great speech. There are tips and graphic organizers for writing. The final step is recording your speech on the Radio Hotline. Listen to other student writing as well.
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Other

Smalltown Marketing: How to Make a Super Brochure or Mailing Piece

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents information on the purpose of brochures, mistakes to avoid, how to write brochure copy, and how to structure brochure.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Writing a Sonnet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes seven links to information, activities, and videos on how to write a sonnet.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Listening to Others and Building on Arguments

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This resource explains how to listen carefully to someone to identify the points they are trying to make and how to use those points to add additional information to the discussion. Includes sentence starters to help frame what you want...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Incorporating Questions in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to incorporate questions in a composition.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Paraphrase Craze: A Lesson in Expository Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on how to paraphrase using an excerpt from Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." It defines paraphrase and plagiarism, presents examples, and explains what is incorrect about them. It is interactive asking for...
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Other

The Editing Process: Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What does the editing process consist of for your students? Use this informative site to learn more about editing.
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Randall Davis

Esl Net world.com: How Do You Write E Mail Messages?

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explains writing email messages in formal and informal style using Hotmail. It explains the steps taken in composing, replying to, and sending messages.
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Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: "Meditation 1"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Full text of Edward Taylor's poem, "Meditation 1." Includes links to other information about Puritans and their writing.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Period

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource detailing the uses and rules of the grammatical element "the period." Also includes information about the period in sentences, quotation marks, parentheses, and abbreviations.
Article
Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Writing Advice: Beginner's Four Faults

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a personal site from Caro Clarke. The third installment in this series looks at the four major mistakes made by beginning authors. The main idea of this article is that the author needs to be able to combine dialogue with...
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Other

Guitar Nine: So You Want to Be a Songwriter?

For Students 9th - 10th
As the title suggests, this column deals with songwriting. It does not tell you specifically how to write a song, but it does cover a lot of good information and advice and how to get started.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Home Is Where the Heart Is: Researching Habitats

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn about different types of habitats as they gather information based on provided research questions. Students will summarize the information from their research in an...
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Other

Use the Correct Business Letter Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives information on the format, layout, and content of a business letter. Also includes examples of business letters.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Summarize Information

For Students 8th Standards
Learn what a summary is and how to write an objective summary of an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.
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Dave's ESL Cafe

Dave's Esl Cafe: Prepositions: Using "To" and "Toward" for Places

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Information and examples of when to use "to" and when to use "toward" when writing sentences.

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