A Free Activity from the PowerPoint Guru! Start the process of getting your students to understand Purpose, Audience, Content, and Organization wi... ByPowerpoint Guru
This is a great lesson to do now with the upcoming inauguration of President Elect Obama. This lesson helps students explore and discuss the chara... ByAllison Paul
Students in middle and high school often complain that the standardized essay prompts are too boring. This one page handout has students create the... ByTamara Doehring
When I give my students a final essay, we work on it i class for a minimum of 5 class periods. The steps that we take to reach the final product a... BySharon Aiuvalasit
This is a project I use in my LA class conjunction with the teaching of the American Revolution in history class. The students research a famous pe... ByJennifer Amos
This assignment was born when I had one particular class that was struggling with writing. I could tell that a good bit of the problem was their i... ByMrs. Smith
This download contains a pair of essay response prompts for Persian/Arabic literature, related to the stories “Rostam and Sohrab” and “The Fi... ByWriting Guy
A comprehensive review quiz for the novel "My Brother Sam is Dead". Includes matching, fill in the blank, short answer, and essay questions.... ByAnnie Smith
This 8-page booklet is just about punctuating dialogue. It is a piece of the larger Basic Punctuation for Grade 7 and 8.
As students approach h... BySusan Grigor
I devised a new editing system for my classes, where they use highlighters to mark their peers or own papers. They receive a bag of highlighters a... ByKim Volden
Have a little fun with Ben Franklin and get your students to think about the differences between Puritan thought and Classicist thought by using th... ByPowerpoint Guru
This is a student centered, standards aligned writing assignment for the primary grades. It begins with a prewrite, then moves to a rewrite, and f... ByJennifer Tyner
This is a 3-4 day mini-unit, meant to introduce students to specific criteria for essay writing in the upper elementary to middle school grades. I ... ByCateach
A rubric, project description, and tips for creating a how-to report poster. This is a great way for students to practice describing a process, us... ByKales7
This is a 2-page overview of the purpose of a letter to the editor, the steps involved in writing a publishable letter, and the details for the ass... ByWriting Guy
This is a writing lesson plan template based upon the Houghton Mifflin Fourth Grade Reader. It can be accommodated for use by other grades as well,... ByAndre Labouyer
This free graphic ordanize, entitled COMFORT COLLECTIONS, is based on the community's policy of giving comfort objects to Newchildren and our tende... ByMargaret Whisnant
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This is an excellent activity for students to practice interviewing techniques, to write effectiv... ByConnie
This is a persuasive/expository prompt for students in middle school or beyond that can be made into a transparency, or used as a handout, to get s... BySusangrace Dubose
This handout would be a nice addition to writing portfolios. It is a chart which includes the four kinds of writing (Narrative, Expository, Persua... ByB.rogers
This is a webquest on arctic animals. Students work in groups to research chosen arctic animals and presents in report form, their findings. Ther... ByRmason
This is a scaffolded research writing assignment designed to be used with the book Animal Farm. The prompt asks students to research the Russian R... ByQuality Teaching Products
This is the rubric for my class interviews project. The full product is ten pages including this rubric. It includes four lesson plans, assignment ... ByKris
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A worksheet for each poem; focus on Belonging; extended questions; character... ByAngie Barillaro- Radiant Heart
Based on Lucy Calkins' Unit of Study ("Breathing Life into Essays"), this unit of lessons targets second and third grade students. Lessons follow t... ByKate B
This is a reproducible handout that details the project requirements for newsletter assignment for the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.... ByMrs. S
O'Henry's short story, "The Ransom of Red Chief is rich in humor and a number of literary devices. This 3-page essay format bunlde prepares student... ByMrs. V.
The first page gives a list of 28 recurrent themes found in King Arthur's Legends, from Concealed/Mistaken Identity to Magic Spells, A special Swor... By Lonnie Jones Taylor
I teach the Jane Schaffer format to my English I students. After they are done writing an essay, they must switch papers with a neighbor and edit. ... ByMiss_h
Presentations can be hard to do in the classroom, but students should get used to speaking in front of the class.
Why not have your students c... ByKsum
This writing unit will guide your students through the writing process of a research paper. Begining with collecting data, creating notecards eith... ByHeather Picolotti
Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Many students feel that every lesson is a mystery or a test for which they were never prepared. Each is a guerril... BySusan Grigor
This upper-level essay packet requires students to relate criticism of Sean Penn's movie version to Krakauer's book version of "Into the Wild." Th... ByKimberly's Ideas
This document contains over one hundred pages of materials for teaching three Greek tragedies: Agamemnon, Medea, and Antigone. The unit instructs ... ByAlexander Clarkson
Title: Student Booster: Writing Reports
Author: Cindy Barden
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
Condition: Like new (has a few bends at cover [do... ByDeanne Davis
A fun writing project for your students. They complete the project as if they were ichthyologists who just discovered a new species of fish! There ... BySmart Chick
This is EVERYTHING I sell for the book, "Lawn Boy", by Gary Paulsen in a CD format that will be shipped to you.
54 page Novel Unit (in both PDF ... BySmart Chick
This is the first part of the notes for the teacher from my manual on the conventions of writing. It is about grading writing and using the markin... BySusan Grigor
Your students will enjoy analyzing the changes to plot, character, and setting made by Baz Luhrmann in his film version of Romeo and Juliet. This ... ByPaula Robinson
This powerpoint is geared to 4th graders taking the FCAT Writing test. The powerpoint reviews strategies the students can use to help them prepare ... ByChristine Wise
This Question Answer Relationships (QAR) graphic organizer is ready to whip out with your students (K-5)! QAR is a type of reading strategy that fo... ByLizzy Beth
An note-taking outline for students to use when writing a surprise ending short story. Could be used after reading the short story "The Lady or the... ByAnnie Smith