Fun Persuasive Letter Writing Lesson: Researching & Asking for Gifts
What student doesn’t enjoy dreaming up a wish list of gifts they would love someone to buy them? And what better way to dream up a list, then to …
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Lesson Plan on How to Edit an Essay for Economy: Learn how to Improve Writing
Editing involves more than adding punctuation and correcting a misspelled word. Good editing should make the main idea of the essay more clear. That …
Continue ReadingTrade & Grade Lesson Plan: Teaching Students to Revise Their Essay Rough Drafts without Having to Read 18,000 Horribly Written Essays.
Want to get out of grading a big pile of rough drafts? Teach your students to revise their own rough drafts and grade their peer’s papers.
Continue ReadingLesson Plan to Teach Middle and High School Students to Review Writing
To be successful writers, students must evaluate their writing effectively. This does not come naturally to all students; many need to be taught how …
Continue ReadingLesson Plan: Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences
I hate run-ons, they’re so annoying. Fragments too. Let’s end run-ons now, this lesson will help. Right Now.
Continue ReadingTeaching Reluctant Readers: Use Twilight by Stephenie Meyer in the Classroom
Between the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series, teens fell in love with Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, one of the most successful series in recent …
Continue ReadingClassroom Assignments Intended to Help Students Sharpen Their Dialogue Writing Skills
Sometimes it seems like an exercise in futility to try to teach the writing of dialogue. A teacher may be tempted to give in to the idea that you are …
Continue ReadingIndependent and Dependent Clauses: Understanding Noun Clauses, Adjective Clauses, and Adverb Clauses
I hate run-ons, I hate fragments too. Those things that irritate me. I don’t ever want to see another run-on sentence, this lesson should …
Continue ReadingLesson Plan: An Easy Way to Correct Pronoun-Antecedent Problems
After reading “he gots,” “She do,” and “They is” 257 times in a 34 minute span, I realized I needed to teach …
Continue ReadingJournaling: Improve Students' Improve Writing Skills and Encourage Emotional Expression
Students learn a lot about their goals and dreams by journal writing. Journal writing–journaling–helps teenagers sort out the maelstrom of …
Continue ReadingLesson Plan: Writing a Good Topic Sentence: The 5 Characteristics of a Good Topic Sentence
A good topic sentence serves as a foundation for a good paragraph. A bad topic sentence serves as the foundation for most student writing. …
Continue ReadingFun Lesson Plan: Reviewing Rules of Correct Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
The following activity is intended to be a review, used after you have taught some specific grammar, punctuation, and/or spelling rules and …
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