Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Final Performance Task: Final Draft of Essay to Inform

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sometimes, it's fun to follow the rules. Using their drafts of an evidence-based essay from previous lessons, scholars write their final informative essays about rules to live by. Next, they choose and share quotes from their essays that...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dr. Seuss and Read Across America

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement...? This is the driving question of a research project that requires scholars to find information about Dr. Seuss' life and work. Class...
Article
Other

Teaching Ideas: Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Just as the title claims, here are fifty different ways to respond to a book. Most can be adapted to all grade levels.
Graphic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Style Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief organizer in which students can analyze a given selection's writing style. Includes sections on diction, figures of speech, images, and sentence structure.
Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Describing People

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize focusing on specific forms of writing, this site discusses describing people as a type of descriptive writing.