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- Lesson Plans
- American History Writing Prompts
6-8
Historical facts about Jesse James, the Pont Express, and more make great writing prompts. (PDF) Source: American History Writing Prompts
- Develop Powers of Persuasion
6-8
Children must create a persuasive public service announcement that focuses on seat belt safety for teens.
- Students Helping Senior Citizens Learn the Internet
6-8
GenerationLink is a classroom-based initiative that enlists Net-savvy high school students to teach senior citizens how to use the Internet. The goal of this program is to teach Internet skills and foster greater multigenerational understanding.
- The Writing Edge! Research Reports
6-8
Motivate and inspire your students to become better writers as they learn lifelong research skills.
- Unit Plan: Democracy: A Big Challenge
K-2
Explore the drafting and signing of the Constitution and develop interviewing and persuasive writing skills.
- Unit Plan: Every Vote Counts!
3-5
Spend a month exploring the world of political campaigns.
- Unit Plan: Letter Writing
6-8
Compose letters to book authors, officials of organizations, and other people.
- Unit Plan: Once Upon a Genre
3-5
Respond to fractured fairy tales by writing in many styles, including a persuasive essay, a personal narrative, a letter of complaint, an advertisement, and even a resume.
- Unit Plan: Persuasion Through Advertising
6-8
Learn about visual and written persuasive techniques, and apply these techniques to create an advertisement.
- Unit Plan: Writing Persuasive Letters
6-8
Explore the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and apply them to independent persuasive letter writing activities.
- Writers' Workshop: Nonfiction
3-5, 6-8
Nonfiction writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Culture & Change Black History in America: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions for using the Culture & Change online activity in the classroom.
- Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Writing with Writers workshops.
- Reproducibles
- Spin-A-Story Writing Prompts Chart
K-2, 3-5
Use this chart to outline the details of your stories – character, plot, and setting. (PDF) Source: Spin-A-Story Writing Prompts Chart
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