Writing
- What's a graphic organizer? You find examples in most of the Write Source books we recommend in Classic Year-Plans, and here's a GREAT site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs. Graphic Organizers on Tap!
- If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
- This site was contributed by Sandy and can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You'll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
- Or, click here for another grammar game.
- Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
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Daily Grammar. Excellent site!
- At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia's introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!
- Great writing tools for Dialectic and up! Link contributed by Anna.
SAT Preparation:
- SAT online question of the day
- Go to this site to answer almost any question you may have about taking the SAT, PSAT, and more!
- Joshua has sent us this test preparation site. Looks great!
- SAT Prep Plan: Take a practice test, which generates a free test report, then create your own SAT study plan. All for FREE!
- SAT Vocabulary Words
- 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions
Evaluations and Rubrics:
- Lisa has contributed this great link for evaluating writing for grades 2-5. This is an interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
- Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
- I recommend you show a student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him help you develop one!) before he starts his project or writing assignment. Click here to develop rubrics automagically from this site for most types of evaluations!
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Week 1: When John Adams Was President
- Level 1: George Washington and John Adams coloring pages
- Levels 1-2: Click here for some neat online activities as you are teaching nouns. Use next week too!
- Levels 1-3: The School House Rock song called "A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing"
- Levels 3-6: Interactive review of the parts of speech.
- Levels 6-8: Simple definitions of the parts of speech to write in your notebook.
- Levels 9-12: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process. Click on each of the orange circles for more details.
- Levels 10-12: Review the parts of speech.
Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career
- Levels 3-5: Your student may enjoy practicing combining words into sentences with this fun online activity.
- Levels 4-5: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
- Level 9: Transition words
Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution
- Level 2: Worksheet reviewing simple tenses in a pdf file.
- Level 2: Mrs. Dowling's Grammar Corner
- Level 3: Review the parts of speech with this online game.
- Level 3: Parts of Speech song
- Levels 3-8: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4-8: Links to lessons about writing paragraphs
- Levels 10-11: Transition words
- Level 12: Writing an analytical essay
Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
- Level 1: Thomas Jefferson coloring page
- Many levels: graphic organizers for prewriting
- Levels 10 and 11: Taking Notes from Lectures
- Levels 10 and 11: How to Take Book Notes
- Level 12: Persuasive Essay
Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court
- Level 11: Informal Outlines
- Level 12: How to Take Essay Tests
Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812
- Level 1: James Madison coloring page
- Level 8: Transition Words
- Level 9: Taking Notes from Lectures
- Level 9: How to Take Book Notes
- Levels 10-11: Formal Outlines
- Level 12: How to Take Essay Tests
Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America
- Levels 4-8: Lecture Notes
- Level 9: Informal Outlines
- Level 10: Writing an analytical essay
- Levels 11-12: Helpful tips for a personal response to literature
Week 8: South America in Transition
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 4-8: Informal Outlines
- Level 9: Formal Outlines
- Level 10: How to Start/Create Your Own Website
- Level 11: Writing an analytical essay
Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 4-8: Formal Outlines
- Level 9: The Book Report
- Level 10: How to Start/Create Your Own Website
- Level 11: How to Take Essay Tests
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Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments
- Level 1: John Quincy Adams coloring page
- Level 3: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4 and 5: Worksheet for practicing using guide words
- Levels 4 and 5: Dictionary Activities
- Levels 4 and 5: Using a Thesaurus
- Level 6: Venn diagram
- Level 6: Compare and Contrast papers
- Level 6: Internet search engine for kids! Bookmark this site if your kids do much online research.
- Level 7: The Book Report
- Level 8: How to Summarize
- Level 9: Writing a Research Paper
- Levels 10 and 11: Writing Papers of Literary Analysis
- Level 12: MLA Citation Style
Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy
- Level 2: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4-5: Writing Reports and Accompanying Rubrics
- Level 6: Various types of 5 W's charts (scroll down just a bit)
- Level 6: Get your describing wheel here.
Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe
- Level 2: Paragraphs
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Use one of these graphic organizers for your prewriting this week.
- Level 6: Narrative Writing. Be sure and click on the "tutorial" in the middle of the page.
- Level 8: Persuasive Writing
Week 13: Victorian England
- Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
- Levels 4-5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 6:Story map
- Level 9: A few notes on writing your first draft
- Level 10: You'll love this site for helping to write your biography.
Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad
- Level 1: Good site for dictation.
- Level 2: Make a display board.
- Level 5: Write a compare and contrast essay
- Level 8: Story map
- Level 9: How to write a research paper.
- Level 11: Resource for writing cause/effect essays
Week 15: Manifest Destiny
- Level 1: Another capitalization and punctuation practice worksheet. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 4-5: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 9: Grading rubric for writing a research paper
Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea
- Level 1: A practice page for name capitalization. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 11: Story map
Week 17: The Oregon Trail
- Level 1: A capitalization worksheet for days and months. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 3: Write a Compare/Contrast essay
- Level 9: Write an Analytical Essay
Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder
- Level 1: Practice capitalizing days of the week with this worksheet. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 3: Write a Compare/Contrast essay
- Level 7: Write an Informative essay
- Level 9: Write a Descriptive essay
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Week 19: Westerners in Asia
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Sequencing Chart (pdf file)
- Level 2: Ladder Diagram
- Level 8: How to Write an Analytical Essay
- Level 10: Persuasive Essay Writing
- Level 11: Good site, with an example definition essay.
Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 4: Cluster Diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: How to Write a Book Report
- Level 10: More information on writing persuasive essays
- Level 11: Essay of Definition
Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 5: Scholastic has a good site for learning to write biographies.
- Level 10: More information on writing narrative essays
- Level 11: Writing a process essay
Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 10: Go to this site and scroll all the way down to find an assortment of punctuation worksheets.
Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Levels 10-12: Informative site on debating
- Levels 10-12: Online Debating Tutorial
Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Very simple story map (pdf file) and describing wheel (pdf file)
- Level 6: Story map
- Level 8: Create your own Venn diagram
- Level 9: A Brief Guide to Writing Narrative Essays
Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 8: Checklist for taking essay tests
Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
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- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file).
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Level 2:
Sample Aesop's fables to print/show students before beginning their
fables
- Great site: all the Aesop's Fables you'll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We've not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
- Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop's fables.
- Level 6: Good information on making a display board.
- Level 9: More information on writing persuasive essays
- Level 10: Essay of argumentation...this is a helpful website.
- Level 11: Review business communiques
- Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 8: Start using the online SAT question of the day.
- Level 1: Simple instructions for writing friendly letters
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 7: Here's a worksheet or quiz on essay terms created from the Write Source handbook, created by Cheryl. File is in MS Word.
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6: You won't want to miss this site for teaching your poetry unit. Excellent!
- Levels 3, 6, 8, and 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here. Contributed by HollyAnne.
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Excellent site that you'll use all through your book report mini-unit
- Level 4: Here is a cover that you can use for your state notebook. (pdf file)
- Level 4: Click here for a ready-to-use Table of Contents for your notebook. (pdf file)
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Basic information about writing acrostics
- Level 3: Online form for writing cinquains
- Levels 7, 9: Public speaking website
- Level 3: A Haiku Homepage
- Level 3: Scroll down just a bit for a very simple diagram of a 5W poem.
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