Curated OER
Periodic Table Puns 2
In this chemistry worksheet, learners use their imagination and the elements in the Periodic Table to solve each pun listed on the sheet. There are 24 to complete.
Curated OER
Life cycles
Students identify and explain the parts of a flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed dispersal and germination using the Internet. Students will also study and discuss the key points and...
Curated OER
Poster Points!
Students interpret non-literary texts, investigate how language works, and how information is conveyed in a range of texts. In this poster critiquing lesson, students identify stylistic features and main points of a variety of posters...
Curated OER
Story Starts
Students create a variety of creative story starts, where the mood, style, genre is clearly apparent in a well written and engaging first paragraph. They listen to the descripition of "Castle." Students discuss the style of this...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing Creative Problem Solving
After reading excerpts in which Buck solves a problem in Jack London's The Call of the Wild, students write their own three-paragraph animal stories imitating London's style and word choice. Teacher and student instructions are provided...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Style and Syntax (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate the authors' style and syntax, and evaluate how effective style and syntax are to the overall meaning of the text. L.11-12.3a Syntax
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Style Chart [Pdf]
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.
Other
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: Intonation
A good site as a resource for changing tone and voice in the written medium of email. Discusses asterisks, capital letters, punctuation, whitespace, and lower-case letters.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Paul Fleischman
Web English Teacher offers a group of resources for teaching and learning about author Paul Fleischman.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3