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Instructional writing: In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 1.5; Writing a lesson plan for other teachers to use isn't like writing one for yourself. When you write for the web, you're practicing instructional writing.; Format: article/help

Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide: LEARN NC works collaboratively with educators and other individuals from a variety of backgrounds to develop web-based resources for teachers and students. This manual guides educators through the process of developing content for publication on the web, including writing, design, technical guidelines, and copyright.; Format: book (multiple pages)

Roundtable: In this cooperative learning model, each team member writes one answer on a piece of paper that is passed around a table. Roundtable is highly effective with creative writing and brainstorming activities. This structure encourages responsibility for the group...; By Heather Coffey.

Guidelines for writing best practice articles: In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 2.2; Not every good teaching idea can be written as a lesson plan or buried within one. Some ideas are more general and apply throughout a curriculum area or even across curricula. If you find yourself explaining concepts, strategies, or practices, consider writing...; Format: /help

Make that chocolate sundae!: The student will write detailed directions for making and eating a chocolate sundae. S/he will then create and eat a sundae.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); By Landa Latta.

Lesson plan publication standards: In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 1.2; Standards for acceptance of lesson plans for publication.; Format: article/help

Composing snowman stories: Students will compose sequential, descriptive instructions about how to build a snowman.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Sandra Weavil.

Descriptive writing using landscape scenes: This lesson focuses on the descriptive writing process through the use of landscape scenes, the Paragraph Writing Strategy from the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning, and the 4MAT Instructional Model.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 English Language Arts)

Working together to get writing right: Philosophical and practical reasons to support writing across the curriculum in high schools. A WebQuest for teachers.; Format: article; By Kim Bowen.

Action chains: Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Australia: Learn more about the history, cultures, and geography of the “land down under” with this sampling of great educational resources found on LEARN NC.; Format: bibliography/help

Puzzled papers: Using the computer to arrange paragraphs in a paper: Students use the cut and paste commands in a word processing program to rearrange paragraphs in a paper, according to logical progression in writing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Sally Watts.

Teaching the features of effective writing: In The five features of effective writing, page 1; By organizing your instruction around focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions, you can help students become more effective writers and make your own job easier.; Format: article; By Kim Bowen and Kathleen Cali.

Plain Polly: Adding relevant details: This instructional technique creates a lasting visual image of how relevant details help develop a character and a focus. Students learn to add only details that are related to the main idea of a “Plain Polly” stick figure. These mascots serve as reminders to students to be selective with the details they use to support their main idea.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

The Little Yellow Chicken: The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts); By diane williams.

Creature creation: An elaboration writing activity: This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.

Who's holding the pencil? And did anybody learn?: In The First Year, page 3.4; Demonstrations can be useful, but be aware of what students are doing and thinking while you're holding the pencil.; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

What's the point?: A lesson on point of view: After reading Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day students will write the story from a chosen character's point of view. This lesson can be used with other wordless picture books.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Eileen Carter and Tracey Casto.

A “defining moment” in editorial writing: Students will be introduced to the definition mode of writing. Students will learn to define a particular subject by responding in an editorial format. Students will first compose an editorial graphic organizer, which will aid in composing a completed editorial using the writing process. This lesson includes modifications for a Novice Low Limited English student.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Susan Brooks and Carrie Mabry.

They're all on the same page...and I'm grading page 1 of 700: In The First Year, page 2.10; Plan your classes to make your own work manageable.; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

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