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- Writing for the Web
- How teachers can more effectively communicate information and ideas via the World Wide Web, to students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the world.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Writing for the web
- In Writing for the Web, page 1
- Why teachers need to think about how they communicate on the web.
- By David Walbert.
- Finding your audience: a primer
- In Writing for the Web, page 3
- Before you sit down to write something, ask yourself some questions about the people who will read it.
- By David Walbert.
- 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
- North Carolina e-Learning for Educators
- A description of the North Carolina e-Learning for Educators program, a series of high-quality, low-cost professional development courses.
- Format: article/help
- Essays of definition: Lively writing through professional models
- This lesson examines a professional model of a definition paper and asks students to analyze and imitate the structures of using anecdotes and cause and effect to elaborate an essay of definition.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Communicating with parents
- To communicate successfully with parents, be caring, professional, open, and organized.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Helping students understand text structures: Informational problem/solution
- This exercise teaches students to understand the organizational structure of problem/solution essays by having them write "what it says" and "what it does" statements about a text. Asking students to write these statements about a text will enable students to read the text closely and will ensure that they understand the structure of a problem/solution text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Communicating information and ideas: a philosophy of writing
- In Writing for the Web, page 2
- Many kinds of writing can be adapted for the web, but it's important to know what you're trying to communicate.
- By David Walbert.
- Lesson plans for teaching style
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching style, the fourth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards, a course that provides ESL and regular K-12 classroom teachers an opportunity to plan lessons using the new NC Standard Course of Study for Limited English Proficient students known as the WIDA/ELP Standards.
- Format: syllabus
- Sentence combining and decombining
- Students will focus on stylistic choices and sentence fluency by combining, decombining, and recombining sentences in professional writing, peer writing, and their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- By Peter Bobbe.
- A Crash Course in ESL: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course A Crash Course in ESL which provides a concise overview of strategies and best practices for administrators working with English language learners.
- Format: syllabus
- 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
- Style
- In The five features of effective writing, page 5
- Style, the fourth Feature of Effective Writing, is what makes an author's writing unique. Here's how to help your students establish a style appropriate to different genres and audiences.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Impressed with embargo
- Students will learn about the causes of the War of 1812 and make connections to current world events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Andrea McGuire.
- I know who they are, but who am I?
- In The First Year, page 3.10
- In your efforts to build relationships with your students, be sure to maintain your status as their teacher.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration, the third of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- 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.
- American Indians in North Carolina: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the online course American Indians in North Carolina which explores Native American history in North Carolina from the earliest evidence of human habitation in the state through first contact with Europeans, the Trail of Tears, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and into the present day.
- Format: syllabus
