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Audience Awareness |
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Introducing Voice Lesson •
A lesson to introduce students to the concept of VOICE in writing.
(from Stephanie Travaille) |
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How
Does Your Voice Change According to Audience? •
An activity to help students identify how they use different tone
and register with different audiences in everyday situations.
(from Stephanie Travaille) |
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Analyze
An Advertisement for Voice Lesson •
A lesson to review or introduce the concept of voice and audience
using magazine ads as a text for practice. (from Stephanie Travaille |
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Language |
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Good,
Better, Best •
Helps students do a metacognitive analysis of sentences. The lesson
can be adapted to focus on grammar, content, word choice, or any
other lens you want to use for analyzing sentences. |
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Retiring
Tired Words Activity •
A short activity to help students identify “tired”
words that they should avoid using in their writing. |
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Sentence
Combining Activity •
An effective writing activity to help students learn how create
more complex sentences through sentence combination. Students
must use colons, semi-colons, and dashes to create longer grammatically
correct sentences from a list of shorter sentences. (from Erin
Carlson)
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Transition
Words Worksheet •
A worksheet for helping students recognize transition words, and
practice using them. (from Erin Carlson)
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Adjectives With Pictures •
Reference tool for ELL students to help them use adjectives
in their writing.
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Sentence Fluency
Revision Activity •
An activity to help students revise a piece of writing
for sentence fluency. (from Westlake Middle School Language Arts
Department)
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Crunchy Verbs •
An activity to help students revise a piece of writing
in order to improve the verbs. (from Westlake Middle School Language
Arts Department)
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