Introducing
Voice Lesson •
A lesson to introduce students to the concept of VOICE in writing.
(from Stephanie Travaille)
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)
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)
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.
Retiring
Tired Words Activity •
A short activity to help students identify “tired”
words that they should avoid using in their writing.
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)
Transition
Words Worksheet •
A worksheet for helping students recognize transition words, and
practice using them. (from Erin Carlson)
Adjectives With Pictures •
Reference tool for ELL students to help them use adjectives
in their writing.
Sentence Fluency
Revision Activity •
An activity to help students revise a piece of writing
for sentence fluency. (from Westlake Middle School Language Arts
Department)
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)
