Middle School Resource Guided Journal In this unit, students, posing as fictional adults, write a journal. Related NY State Academic Standards: LOTE.ML.1.1.C.C, LOTE.ML.1.2.C.B, LOTE.ML.1.2.C.C and more! Be sure to check out our Educational Resources, featuring thousands of activities, lesson plans, constructed-response questions, rubrics, teacher resources, multimedia, and more!

Elementary School Resource Dialogue Journals Dialogue Journals are intended to provide students an opportunity to share privately in writing their reactions, questions, and concerns about school experiences with the teacher without any threat of reprisal or evaluation. It affords the teacher the opportunity to learn what each individual child is doing and thinking and then […]

Elementary School Resource Custom Tracing Pages from Kidzone This is a site for creating letter tracing practice sheets. Choose from a variety of themes and printing styles, as well as design your own words to practice writing. This practice is appropriate for grade level(s) kindergarten. Related NY State Academic Standards: L.K.1.a, L.K.2, ELA1.E.SW2G.KN.01 and more! […]

Elementary School Resource Jazz & Similes: Language Meets Music The objective of the lesson in this video is for students to understand and use similes to express ideas in writing. Related NY State Academic Standards: SL.4.1.c, SL.4.1.d, SL.4.1.e and more! Be sure to check out our Educational Resources, featuring thousands of activities, lesson plans, constructed-response […]

Middle School Resource Using Kidspiration in the Classroom Kidspiration® is designed specifically to match the learning needs and abilities of K-5 students. With Kidspiration, young learners use graphic organizers to improve learning and thinking skills across the curriculum in reading and writing, science, social studies and math. Related NY State Academic Standards: W.3.6, W.4.6, W.5.6 […]

High School Resource Writing Whimsical Dialogues Students will write dialogues in the subject areas and demonstrate knowledge in various subject areas in relation to a specific topic. Related NY State Academic Standards: CDOS.C.2.1.B, CDOS.C.3a.TS.2.A, CDOS.C.3a.MI.6.A and more! Be sure to check out our Educational Resources, featuring thousands of activities, lesson plans, constructed-response questions, rubrics, teacher […]

Middle School Resource Persuasive Writing This lesson will incorporate one of the many different writing tasks emphasized in the fifth grade ELA curriculum. It is important that students are able to express their opinions/point of view in an appropriate format. The students had to choose whether the town council should build a mall or a […]

High School Resource Guided Journal In this unit, students, posing as fictional adults, write a journal. They complete a journal entry every week during the school year, after completing the Dossier handout that defines the qualities of the journal character (e.g., age, nationality, employer, education, etc.). Journal entries are a minimum of two pages, and […]

Elementary School Resource Dinosaur Poetry This teacher resource gives you ideas on how to help your students with writing a funny dinosaur poem. Can be used as a writing activity when studying dinosaurs. This Resource is appropriate for grade level(s) 2. Related NY State Academic Standards: ELA2.E.SW2C, ELA2.E.SW2C.02.02 Be sure to check out our Educational […]

High School Resource Writing Short Stories: The Fun Way by ECSDM All students have great creative short stories implanted in their minds, however, many of them lack the confidence to write the story down. Here is a fun approach to engage students in the creative writing of original short stories that involves the entire class […]