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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Alliteration in Headline Poems
   Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
   Students review the basic conventions for using quotations from literature or references from a research project, focusing on accurate punctuation and page layout, then apply the conventions to their texts.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
   Students explore using electronic messaging and Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examine the importance of using a more formal style of writing based on their audience.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Minilesson
   Students examine familiar car names for underlying connotations then proceed through a series of steps, increasing their control over language, until they select words with powerful connotations in their own writing.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bright Morning: Exploring Character Development in Fiction
   Students work as a class to explore a character in a book they have read by identifying traits and finding textual references to support their choices.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Character Clash: A Minilesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue
   Students learn about paragraphing conventions in dialogue by revising their own writing.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Choosing Clear and Varied Dialogue Tags: A Minilesson
   In this minilesson, students explore the use of dialogue tags such as “he said” or “she answered” in picture books and novels, discussing their purpose, form, and style.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Minilesson
   Students explore how active and passive voices are appropriate to different audiences. They examine online resources, and then draw conclusions about verb use, which they apply to their own writing.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Collaborative Stories 2: Revising
   Using a collaborative story written by students, the teacher leads a shared-revising activity to help students consider content when revising, with students participating in the marking of text revisions.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity
    Students use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.

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