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Writing Lesson Plans & Activities

Overviews Sentences Biographies
6 Traits +1 Paragraphs Note-Taking
Expository Writing   Compare/Contrast   Outlining
Persuasive Writing Cause/Effect   Graphic Organizers
Creative Writing Essays Bibliographies
Narrative Writing Journals Book Reports

Return to Reading, Grammar, Speaking & Listening


Writing Complete Sentences

Free Sentence Structure PowerPoints (ppt)

Subject & Predicate

Phrases/Clauses

Be the Sentence - An interactive lesson idea

Writing Tips - Sentences, Paragraphs, Essays

There sentences

Fun with fragments (lesson with 4 handouts)

Online Games

Capital Letters (online game)

Magnetic Nursery Rhymes - make a sentence

Build a Sentence

Scrambled Sentences

Can you make sense of a sentence?

Penguins on Ice

Sentence Sort

Parts of a Sentence




Writing Paragraphs

Step by Step Paragraph and Report Writing

Perfecting my pal Poe's paragraph

Writing Paragraphs - the 5 sentence paragraph

Writing paragraphs

Paragraphs for younger children

Three Wishes - Writing Paragraphs




Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect

Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Sequencing, Text Structure

Compare & Contrast - Ritz Crackers & Oreo Cookies (3-5 & 6-9)





Expository Writing

Explanation & Examples

Narrative vs Expository Text

Expository Text

Expository Text (1st grade usage)

Reading Expository Text

Quick way to learn expository text (lesson)

Read Write Think (lesson)

Expository Text - NonFiction - A Quick Way to Learn (lesson & excellent links)

Class Discussions using Expository Text (lesson)

Expository Text - Using Lewis & Clark 

How to write a biography/autobiography

Research Skills

When used to benefit a sponsor, expository text can be used
to create powerful propaganda. See this site for more: Propaganda Techniques

Persuasive Writing  

Persuasive Writing - "Mom, can I have a puppy?"

Propaganda Techniques in Writing, Media, TV, Ads, more

Creative Writing

Creative Writing Lesson Plans (New York Times)

Writing/Creative Writing Lesson Plans (EduPlace)

Teaching Creative Writing (English Teacher)

Free Creative Writing PowerPoints (ppt) 

Genres

Writing Fables

Mystery Stories (student work, Harris Middle School)

Science Fiction Stories (student work, Harris Middle School)

Genres of Children's Literature

Kidlink

Zulu

globalclassroom.org  




Narrative Writing

Narrative vs Expository Text

Writing Journals

Journal Topics

Personal Narrative Lessons




Bibliographies

How to Write a Bibliography





Additional Resources/Overviews

Free 6-Traits of Writing PowerPoints (ppt)

Free Writing PowerPoints (ppt) 

Great list of writing assignments (Outta Ray's Head)  

Writing lessons from the BBC

Writing Lesson Ideas

Writing Tips - Sentences, Paragraphs, Essays

K Lang Art (UNIT)

First Grade Lang Arts UNITS

Second Grade Lang Arts UNITS

Third Grade Lang Arts UNITS

Fourth Grade Lang Arts UNITS

Fifth Grade Lang Arts UNITS

Free PowerPoints for Language Arts

1st Grade Writing (Internet 4 Teachers)

2nd Grade Writing (Internet 4 Teachers)

3rd Grade Writing (Internet 4 Teachers)

4th Grade Writing (Internet 4 Teachers)

5th Grade Writing (Internet 4 Teachers)

6th Grade Writing (Internet for Teachers)

7th Grade Writing (Internet for Teachers)

8th Grade Writing (Internet 4 Teachers) 

Writing (great selection of links, Easton)

Writing Websites (links)

Reading Lesson Plans

Grammar Lesson Plans

Speaking & Listening Lesson Plans

Language Arts Games

Writing and Publishing (surfaquarium)




 
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