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- Spider legs
- This strategy for peer conferencing helps students learn to use "Spider Legs" to answer revision questions, and then insert the revised information into their drafts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- 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.
- Ongoing assessment strategies for writing
- Making final assessment easier by helping students improve the quality of their writing along the way.
- By Sherri Phillips Merrit.
- 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.
- Writing stories with person-ality
- In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of adding figurative language to their narrative writing. Through teacher modeling and sharing of appropriate picture books, students will learn to recognize and create personifications for their stories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Janice Lane.
- Focus
- In The five features of effective writing, page 2
- Focus, the first Feature of Effective Writing, is the "so what?" in a piece of writing. This article will help you teach students to stay on topic.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Mumbling together
- "Mumbling together" is a strategy students can use to edit their own writing and develop an ear for correct language. Students learn to proofread by reading their first drafts aloud to identify left-out words and other errors.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, affirmed and remanded (1955)
- In Brown II the court delegated the task of carrying out the desegregation to district courts with orders that desegregation occur “with all deliberate speed.”
- Format: court decision/primary source
- George Washington's obituary
- The following lesson will introduce students to the research process -- formulating questions, choosing resources, fact finding, and note-taking. After completing their research, they will write a short obituary for George Washington. Activities will integrate Reading, Language, Social Studies, Writing, and Computer Skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Kathy Blades.
- "So what?" details
- Students will learn that adding details to a piece of writing doesn't make it better if the details are "So What?" details. Details and elaboration should be related to the main idea and should move the story along in an interesting manner.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- 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
- The bear who wouldn't sleep
- Intermediate-level ESL students will apply facts from a content-based reading passage to create a short story about a bear who doesn't hibernate with his family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Donna Kauffman.
- Defining tyranny
- Students will focus on gathering support for and elaborating on ideas for an essay of definition on tyranny. Students will use examples from history and from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Bethany Hill.
- Slow motion replay
- Students will learn to use slow motion replay of a moment in a narrative to make it easier for the reader to feel that he or she is actually experiencing the event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Great beginnings
- Good beginnings hook readers and make them want to continue reading. Students will learn the features of good beginnings by reading the beginnings of several narrative picturebooks, and then writing good beginnings for their own narratives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Further reading
- In The five features of effective writing, page 7
- An annotated bibliography on the Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Let's become chefs!
- The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Sarah Ann Parker.
- 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.
- The Constitution of the United States
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 6.4
- An original print copy of the Constitution, 1787. Page 2 of 2 of the original printed Constitution. We...
- Format: constitution
- 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.
