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- The five features of effective writing
- The five Features of Effective Writing — focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions — are a valuable tool for understanding good writing and organizing your writing instruction. By teaching these features, you can help your students become more effective writers in any genre, at any level, and make your writing instruction easier to manage at the same time. This series of articles, written with the support of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, will show you how.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- About the five features of effective writing
- An explanation of the "Five Features of Effective Writing" model (focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions) with links to detailed articles, lesson plans, and exemplars of student writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Writing conventions
- Examples of common errors in sentence formation, usage, and mechanics.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Grammar and editing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.4
- In this lesson for grade six, students will learn about the conventions of grammar and will learn how to write and edit a business letter.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Highlighting revisions, glossing changes
- By highlighting their revisions and explaining (i.e.,glossing) the changes they have made to a draft of their work, students will not only become more proficient writers but will also become more conscious of the process of revision and thus more reflective writers. Further, teachers will find it easier to monitor and evaluate student revisions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Peter Bobbe.
- Lesson plans for teaching conventions
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching conventions, the fifth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Writing a fish book: Number and color details
- Students will learn and write color words and number words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Stephanie Phelps.
- Revising and editing an essay
- Students will learn how to revise and edit an essay. In particular, they will focus on pronoun agreement. This is the third lesson in a series of three based upon LEARN NC's 9th grade writing exemplars.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Kim Bowen.
- Sentence combining
- This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. Students will learn to combine short choppy sentences that develop their ideas and involve the reader in the action of the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Women of the South in a changing society
- This lesson examines the lives of women in Southern Appalachia and other areas of the south during the Civil War and focuses particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.
- Conventions
- In The five features of effective writing, page 6
- Conventions — grammar, spelling, and the like — are important to good writing, but should be taught only after the other Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Life history slide show
- Students will use photos to create a slide show of their life. They will plan a presentation based on significant episodes of their life and describe their personal experiences in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts)
- By Mary Lou Faircloth.
- School uniforms: Point-of-view writing
- This lesson deals with an issue that is very important to students: school uniforms. It incorporates writing, speaking, and math.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Linda Bulluck.
- Sentence elaboration with prepositional phrases
- This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. In this lesson, students will learn how to write more elaborated, complex sentences by adding prepositional phrases and clauses.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Using RAFT to determine how to write an informational essay
- Students will use RAFT as a tool to determine how to write an informational essay. They will also design a graphic organizer for the assignment as well as compose a rough draft. This is the second lesson in a series of three based on the LEARN NC 9th grade writing exemplars.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Bowen.
- Further reading
- In The five features of effective writing, page 7
- An annotated bibliography on the Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Modern folk tales: Playwriting
- Working in teams, students will rewrite short folk tale or fable plays, modernizing them. Then, they will present the old and new versions of the play.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Dayle Payne.
- Be the sentence: An interactive language arts activity
- Students take on the roles of different words and punctuation and work collaboratively to create a complete sentence using correct parts of speech, word order, and punctuation. Students progress from simple sentences to more complex sentences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Apple story writing with a buddy
- Students will write a story with a buddy through the use of a computer. Practicing computer skills and correct sentence formation will be emphasized.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Patsy Oswald.
- 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.
