Do your students have trouble writing complete sentences? Do they write in fragments and run-ons? Perhaps they write in complete sentences, but the... ByLaura Candler
Would you like to assign a report that requires students to THINK instead of copying and pasting facts from a website? This 15-page packet describe... ByLaura Candler
This is a form students can use to summarize a newspaper article they have read. On the front it asks them to identify heading, subheading, byline... ByJewels
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I use a persuasion unit to teaching various rhetorical and stylistic... ByHttp://www.learning-centered.c
A set of 12 project challenges for the book, "The Hunger Games", by Suzanne Collins. These challenges require students to create a variety of crea... BySmart Chick
This writing activity packet (9 pages long) is geared at improving students expository writing skills, with particular emphasis on evaluation and p... ByMrs. Elitzin
This Essay Architect Writing System contains over 100 pages of handouts, worksheets and activites to teach the skill of essay writing with ease. Pl... BySecondary Solutions
This is a Word document of 84 writing prompts in 4 modes of writing:
1) Descriptive
2) Expository (all prompts ask students to explain REASONS)... ByDeanne Davis
A lot here to talk about. So say you wanted your students to write a narrative or reflective essay focusing in on one particular moment...
Well.... ByHttp://www.learning-centered.c
NOTE: I may have used a font in this presentation that you don't have on your computer, which will make the text "jump around." If that's the cas... ByDeanne Davis
Here is a set (updated in 2011)of fifteen, or so, handouts and project-able documents that will be very useful in teaching essay writing. The packa... ByAdam Erickson
Whether you're teaching journalism, a persuasion unit or helping your students with expository composition, this assignment is an excellent way of ... ByHttp://www.learning-centered.c
This is a complete 52 page literature guide for the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Included in the literature guide is comprehension questions ... ByLisa Dhein
This whopping 32 slide presentation is how I teach my students about the thesis statement. Now, most of my English department uses it, and we have ... ByFwteacher
BEST SELLER! Students learn about nonfiction text features by creating a booklet about themselves using different features. This 13 page booklet in... ByLisa Frase
Massively Revised April 2011
This packet is now a whopping 33 pages instead of a mere 6, and I am offering it for the original price. Not only h... ByConstance Casserly
This is a collection (Updated in 2011)of more advanced essay and composition lessons and handouts. (I also offer a set of basic essay lessons and h... ByAdam Erickson
This activity provides students with practice in the specific area of varied sentence length. Students will work on creating complete sentences wit... BySunnydays
It's time to assign a research paper, but your students don't know or can't remember how to quote, paraphrase or summarize others' writing? You ne... ByCasey A. South
I created these scripts to help my students understand important nonfiction text structures. Each of the 4 scripts (chronological order, cause and ... ByEmily Kissner
Paragraph Writing: Hamburger Paragraph by Erica:
Hook your class on paragraph writing with this interactive power point on writing a complete para... ByErica
Help give your students the tools to write powerful THESIS statements with this fun, informative PowerPoint presentation. Using the movie Avatar a... ByPowerpoint Guru
Handouts of over 100 frequently misspelled words (i.e. available, exercise, rhythm), and 150 commonly confused words (bad versus badly, cloth versu... BySecondary Solutions
These Writing/ Journal Topics were created to use in classrooms during Writing Workstations, Writers Workshop or any creative writing time during y... ByMorgan Simoneaux
As part of an American Dream unit with my junior Am lit students, I have my classes investigate their own dreams and pursuits by researching a poss... ByHttp://www.learning-centered.c
Students experience expository writing by writing detailed directions for how to build a snowman. File includes: cover page, 2 pages of stationary,... ByLesson Plan Sos Teachers
This is a simple color coded guide for third and fourth graders to use when writing a paragraph. It begins with a topic sentence, then a reason or... ByWorking 4 The Classroom
The perfect precursor to the best-selling Essay Architect, this Essay Apprentice Writing Program helps students who are unable to write a five-para... BySecondary Solutions
An 8 slide PowerPoint presentation on 6 different text structures, including cause and effect, comparison/contrast, and sequence. The first slide i... ByHappyedugator
This bingo card has almost 50 journal prompts that student self-select each day. This is a perfect tool for a daily journal writing program. Each... ByRelentless Innovation
Students often can identify the names of text features, but have difficulty understanding how text features help the reader. This is a fun, hands-... ByB A Burke
An extensive novel unit for the book, "The Hunger Games", by Suzanne Collins. It is 110 total pages of resources with many keys!! You will receiv... BySmart Chick
This 2 page handout describes the details of writing a good persuasive essay: starting with how to write a good thesis statement, and continuing wi... ByHappyedugator
This powerpoint is a great intro to a satire unit and Swift's "A Modest Proposal". Great to use with Gulliver's Travels, Candide, Don Quixote, etc ... ByGreta Barron
Tasty Tuesday is a delicious way to give your students a concrete example about which to write. Everything you need is included to implement this p... BySunnydays
For each trait, students are given an explanation of the trait, steps in implementing the trait, a checklist, and scoring guide. A great handbook ... ByJoy2you
This 64 page package includes teaching ideas, a chart with pictures of features already on it, circle map, Labels for chart or tree map, photos of ... ByCecelia Magro I Love 1st Grade
Use this as a handout to give students many different choices for persuasive writing, or use the prompts separately for different writing assignmen... ByHappyedugator
Throughout history, humans have shown their ability to be inhumane. If contemporary adolescents are to learn about and gain an understanding about ... ByConstance Casserly
Over 300 writing prompts aligned with the ELA Common Core Standards for reading, writing, speaking & listening, language, and history strands.
... ByTracee Orman
The Glyph Girls have designed the perfect polar bear glyph for you to use this winter! It even has two options - vertical or horizontal. Both optio... ByGlyph Girls
A complete literature unit for the book, "Flying Solo", by Ralph Fletcher. This is a great beginning of the year title and it was recently offered... BySmart Chick
THIS PPT WILL HELP YOUR STUDENTS BUILD A MULTI-PARAGRAPH ESSAY WITH THE HELP OF EVEYONES FAVORITE SUPERHERO, SPIDERMAN. INCLUDES SLIDES ON PREWRITI... ByPowerpoint Guru
After reading Night and studying Elie Wiesel�s life after the Holocaust, my students completed this research paper. It�s a very simple assignm... ByJulie Conlon
This is one year-long curriculum guide for writers workshop in kindergarten or first grade. It features mini-lessons based on nine writing genres ... ByLarissa
This writing packet (29 pages long) was designed specifically for remedial writers, who did not pass the 7th grade writing test, and who must take ... ByMrs. Elitzin
This this a 4.5 page outline for students to use as a guide when writing a persuasive paper or speech. It guides students through the process of w... ByJessica Jung
Following the engaging, interactive style of my Persuasion PowerPoint this PowerPoint presents the main formatting elements for MLA research writin... ByRebecca Malone
They have completed the research and written the rough draft: now how do you get your students to put the research paper in its final MLA format wi... ByCasey A. South