Writing
- What's a graphic organizer? You find examples in most of the Write Source books we are using, 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
- 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: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Level 1: Click here for some neat online activities as you are teaching nouns. Use next week too!
- Level 2: Mrs. Dowling's Grammar Corner has wonderful helps that you can use many times this year. Thanks to Karen S. for this great site!
- Levels 3-7: For reviewing the steps in the writing process, click here.
- Levels 8-12: Download one of these five scavenger hunts for use with Writer's Inc. Scroll down to find your choices and much more! Take time to dig around this site. Excellent, and created by one of our users: Tamra.
- Levels 8-11: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process.
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- Level 1: Coloring page of William H. Taft
- Level 2- Pronoun game
- Level 3: Your student may enjoy practicing combining words into sentences with this fun online activity.
- Levels 4-6: Describing wheel (pdf file), Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 7-8: Cluster Diagram for more middle level students (pdf file), describing wheel (pdf file)
- Levels 9-11: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students, describing wheel (pdf file)
Week 3: Wilson's Reforms & Europe's War
- Level 1: Coloring page of Woodrow Wilson
- Level 2: Need extra help in teaching verbs? Click here for a pdf file to download.
- Level 2: Mrs. Dowling's Grammar Corner
- Level 3: Venn diagram, Cluster diagram (pdf file), describing wheel (pdf file), 5 W's Chart (pdf file)
- Level 11- Taking lecture notes
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Level 2: Another great pdf file from the folks at LovetoLearnPlace.com. This one is on adjectives.
- Levels 4-6: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
- Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle here that will reinforce this knowledge. Contributed by Lisa in NC.
- Levels 4-12: Another review contributed by Lisa: preposition wordsearch
- Levels 5-8: Descriptive Writing
- Levels 10-11: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students.
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Level 2: Adverb fun from LovetoLearnPlace.com. (pdf file)
- Level 2: Mrs. Dowling's Grammar Corner
- Level 3: Very simple story map (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Levels 4-5: Use one of these graphic organizers.
- Levels 6, 9: Story map
- Level 10: Christian Internet Code of Ethics: definitely worth reading!
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
Week 7: Postwar America
- Level 1: Click here for instructions on making a game for learning prepositions. Looks like fun!
- Level 2: Mrs. Dowling's Grammar Corner
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 4-5: 5 W's Chart (pdf file), Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 7: Cluster Diagram (pdf file)
- Level 11: Christian Internet Code of Ethics: definitely worth reading!
Week 8: America's Roaring 20's & Russia's Stalin
- Level 1: Coloring page of Warren G. Harding
- Level 2: For further help with learning the steps of the writing process, click here.
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 11: Go to these sites for helps and practice college application essays:
- Princeton Review has loads of helpful information, and we found this very interesting page there.
- Interested in Business schools? Princeton Review has this article on writing essays for admission to them.
- AdmissionsEssays.com. Click on "college", then scroll down and click on "FREE step by step analysis, structure, and writing guide!". Or, here is the direct link.
- Read samples of other homeschooler's college application essays at Cafi Cohen's site.
- College Application Essays: helpful hints. Written from a secular perspective, but with some helpful hints.
- Sample College Essay Questions
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler's Early Career
- Level 1: Coloring page of Herbert Hoover
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 6: Cluster Diagram for more middle level students (pdf file)
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Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Level 1: Coloring page of Herbert Hoover
- Level 2: Describing wheel (pdf file)
- Level 10:Instructions for building your own website
- Level 11: Cause and Effect
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Level 1: Need extra worksheets for working on capitalization? Click here.
- Level 1: Five worksheets for practicing sentences and punctuation.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Parts of Speech song
- Level 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 7: How to write a report
- Level 10: Instructions for building your own website
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Level 1- Coloring page of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Levels 2-3: Very simple story map (pdf file)
- Level 3: Basic information about descriptive writing
- Levels 4-5: Online thesaurus
- Levels 4, 5: Using a Thesaurus
- Level 7: Use one of these graphic organizers for planning your research report.
- Level 8: More information on writing persuasive essays
- Level 11: Good site, with an example definition essay.
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
- Level 3: Describing wheel (pdf file), sensory chart (pdf file)
- Levels 4-5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 6: Venn diagram
- Level 9: Writing a Research Paper, more advanced cluster diagram
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- Levels 2-3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)
- Level 5- Biography Maker
- Level 6: Venn diagram
- Level 9: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students.
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Level 1: WWII Coloring Pages
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 10: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students.
- Level 11: Story map
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Level 1: Harry Truman coloring page
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 3- Compare and Contrast! Diagram a story
- Level 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 7: Describing wheel (pdf file), sensory chart (pdf file)
- Level 12: Great site for learning to build your own website
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Level 3: Venn diagram
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
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Week 19: India's Independence
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
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Level 2: Samples
of Aesop's fables to show students in pre-writing phase
- 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 3: Narrative Writing Tutorial
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Level 4: Journal Writing
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Level 6- Persuasive Writing
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Level 7- Book Reports
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Level 8- Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 9: How to write analytical Essays
- Level 10: Narrative Essays
- Level 11: Essay of Opposing Ideas(Argumentative)
- Level 12: Historical Fiction
Week 20: China's Revolution
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
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Level 2:
Samples of Aesop's
fables to show students in pre-writing phase
- 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 3: Basic information about narrative writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Level 6: Persuasive Writing
- Level 7:Book Reports
- Level 8 : Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 9: How to write analytical Essays
- Level 10: Persuasive Essays
- Level 11: Essay of Opposing Ideas(Argumentative)
- Level 12:Historical Fiction
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Samples of Aesop's fables to show
students in pre-writing phase
- 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 3: Story Writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Level 6: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 7::Book Reports
- Level 8: Expository Essays
- Level 9: Narrative Essays
- Level 10: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 11: Essay of Opposing Ideas(Argumentative)
- Level 12: Historical Fiction
Week 22: Eisenhower's Oasis
- Level 1:Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2:Samples of Aesop's fables to show students in
pre-writing phase
- 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 3:Story Writing
- Level 4:Journal Writing
- Level 6:Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 7:Persuasive Essays
- Level 8: Narrative Essays
- Level 9:Persuasive Essays
- Level 10:Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 11: Personal Response to Literature
- Level 12:Historical Fiction
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Level 1:Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2:Samples of Aesop's fables to show
students in pre-writing phase
- 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 3:Story Writing
- Level 4:Journal Writing
- Level 6:Narrative Essays
- Level 7:Persuasive Essays
- Level 8:Story Writing
- Level 9:Persuasive Essays
- Level 10: Essay of Opposing Ideas(Argumentative)
- Level 11: Analytical Essays
- Level 12:Historical Fiction
Week 24: Kennedy's New Frontiers
- Level 1::Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Expository Writing
- Level 3: Photo Essay- you have to scroll a little way down
- Level 4: Speech Writing
- Level 6: Reports
- Level 7: Speech Writing
- Level 8:Story Writing
- Level 9: Speech Writing
- Level 10: Debate
- Level 11: Debate
- Level 12: Debate
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Level 1::Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2:Some graphic organizers to print to help with informative writing or directions
- Level 3:Photo Essay- you have to scroll a little way down
- Level 4:Speech Writing
- Level 6:Reports
- Level 7:Speech Writing
- Level 8:Story Writing
- Level 9:Speech Writing
- Level 10: Debate
- Level 11: Debate
- Level 12: Debate
Week 26: Johnson's Great Society
- Level 1::Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Descriptive Writing
- Level 3:Photo Essay- you have to scroll a little way down
- Level 4:Speech Writing
- Level 6:Reports
- Level 7:Speech Writing
- Level 8:Story Writing
- Level 9:Speech Writing
- Level 10:Debate
- Level 11:Debate
- Level 12:Debate
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- Level 1::Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2:Descriptive Writing
- Level 3:Photo Essay- you have to scroll a little way down
- Level 4:Speech Writing
- Level 6:Reports
- Level 7:Speech Writing
- Level 8:Story Writing
- Level 9:Speech Writing
- Level 10:Debate
- Level 11:Debate
- Level 12:Debate
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Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Level 1: Writing a Friendly Letter
- Level 2: Newspaper Writing
- Level 3: How to write a fable and another one on fables
- Level 4:Newspaper Writing
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Level 6: How to write a fiction story
- Level 7:Newspaper Writing
- Level 8: Literary Analysis
- Level 9: Literary Analysis
- Level 10:Literary Analysis
- Level 11: The Process Essay
- Level 12: How to write a Parable
Week 29: Ford's Integrity
- Level 1:Writing a Friendly Letter
- Level 2: How to Write a Summary Paragraph
- Level 3:How to write a fable and another one on fables
- Level 4:How to Write a Summary Paragraph
- Level 5:How to write a report
- Level 6:How to write a fiction story
- Level 7:How to Write a Summary Paragraph
- Level 8:Literary Analysis
- Level 9:Literary Analysis
- Level 10:Literary Analysis
- Level 11:The Process Essay
- Level 12:How to write a Parable
Week 30: Carter's Malaise
- Level 1: Describing Wheel- printable
- Level 2: Writing a Newspaper
- Level 3:How to write a fable and another one on fables
- Level 4:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 5:How to write a report
- Level 6:How to write a fiction story
- Level 7:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 8:Literary Analysis
- Level 9:Literary Analysis
- Level 10:Literary Analysis
- Level 11: Response to Literature
- Level 12:
Week 31: Reagan's Revolution
- Level 1: Describing Wheel- printable
- Level 2:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 3: 2 Word Poems
- Level 4:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 5:How to write a report
- Level 6: 2 Word Poems
- Level 7:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 8:Imagery and one on 2 Word Poems
- Level 9: Writing a Personal Profile
- Level 10: Imagery in Poetry
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush's New World Order
- Level 1:: Describing Wheel- printable
- Level 2:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 4:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 5:Writng a Personal Narrative
- Level 7:Writing a Newspaper
- Level 9:Writing an Interview Report
Week 33: Clinton's Lost Opportunity
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
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