Creator: Alison Hoffmann, Barbara Griffiths and Irina Elgort | visit site
Grade Range: 6 - 11
This site offers writing exercises for students’ self-directed study. The exercises cover topic sentences, building paragraphs, incorporating sources (always good for practice in writing research essays or papers), and types of paragraphs. There is a sample essay that students are encouraged to read after doing the exercises, but it offers both a sample essay and an analysis of the writing and content. This site requires that Javascript be enabled web browser. You can find directions at the <a href="/tools.cfm ">TeachersFirst Toolbox page.</a>.
In the Classroom
This site offers the option for students to work independently on their basic writing. These exercises are a little more advanced than some on the web; however, they are especially good for high school students. It would make an interesting exercise to work through some of the examples as a class on interactive whiteboard, and then offer students the sample essay to analyze themselves or on the whiteboard before showing the final analysis on the site.
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Tags
paragraph writing, paragraphs, sentences, writing, paragraphs, sentences,
Subjects
English, Language Arts, Language Arts, Language Arts, Writing,