A Lesson Plan on Writing a Love Song
Love is a subject of many popular songs from my day, as well as your students. Enjoy a memorable day by having students analyze popular songs and then …
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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 …
Continue ReadingHave a Classroom Debate on Career Choices & Salary
Help students learn about the real world by doing research about jobs and salaries and then holding a debate about the importance of salary in …
Continue ReadingLesson 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 ReadingEssay Evaluation Made Easy With a Student Writing Checklist & Comments
Essay evaluation can be tedious. Not anymore!
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 ReadingHelp Your Teen Have a Unique High School Experience
We have tips so parents can create ideas and activities to make their teen’s high school days as memorable as possible. Many teens enter high …
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 …
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