Expository writing is an increasingly important skill for elementary, middle, and high school students to master. This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline that includes an introductory statement, main ideas they want to discuss or describe, supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas. The tool offers multiple ways to navigate information including a graphic in the upper right-hand corner that allows students to move around the map without having to work in a linear fashion.�The finished map can be saved, e-mailed,�or printed.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Unit

Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author�s thesis and argument structure.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Students will identify how Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolent conflict-resolution is reinterpreted in modern texts. Homework is differentiated to prompt discussion on how nonviolence is portrayed through characterization and conflict. Students will be formally assessed on a thesis essay that addresses the Six Kingian Principles of Nonviolence.

Grades 6 12  |  Lesson Plan | Unit

Students develop their reading, writing, research, and technology skills using graphic novels. As a final activity, students create their own graphic novels using comic software.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Students will research, read, clarify, analyze, and interpret John Berryman�s poetry and create a sustained evaluation of a given poem in a three- to four-page essay.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

While drafting a literary analysis essay (or another type of argument) of their own, students work in pairs to investigate advice for writing conclusions and to analyze conclusions of sample essays. They then draft two conclusions for their essay, select one, and reflect on what they have learned through the process.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Defining Moments: Charting Character Evolution in Lord of the Flies

Savagery, treachery, lost innocence� Lord of the Flies is rife with character development. Use this lesson to help students chart the character changes of Ralph and Jack, both in groups and individually.

Grades 3 12  |  Student Interactive | Organizing Summarizing

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Grades 3 12  |  Student Interactive | Organizing Summarizing

The Compare Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.

Grades 5 12  |  Calendar Activity |&nbsp December 5

Students describe female characters in Disney films, discuss their characteristics, and write a thesis statement about them.

Grades 6 12  |  Strategy Guide

This Strategy Guide describes the processes involved in composing and producing audio files that are published online as podcasts.

Grades K 5  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide explains the writing process and offers practical methods for applying it in your classroom to help students become proficient writers.

Grades K 12  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide explains how to use shared writing to teach students effective strategies that will improve their own independent writing ability.

Grades K 12  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide explains how to use write-aloud (also known as modeled writing) to teach effective writing strategies and improve students� independent writing ability.

Grades 3 12  |  Strategy Guide

This guide introduces I-Charts, a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing.

Grades 6 12  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide clarifies the difference between persuasion and argumentation, stressing the connection between close reading of text to gather evidence and formation of a strong argumentative claim about text.

Expository writing is an increasingly important skill for elementary, middle, and high school students to master. This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline that includes an introductory statement, main ideas they want to discuss or describe, supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas. The tool offers multiple ways to navigate information including a graphic in the upper right-hand corner that allows students to move around the map without having to work in a linear fashion.�The finished map can be saved, e-mailed,�or printed.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Unit

Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author�s thesis and argument structure.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Students will identify how Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolent conflict-resolution is reinterpreted in modern texts. Homework is differentiated to prompt discussion on how nonviolence is portrayed through characterization and conflict. Students will be formally assessed on a thesis essay that addresses the Six Kingian Principles of Nonviolence.

Grades 6 12  |  Lesson Plan | Unit

Students develop their reading, writing, research, and technology skills using graphic novels. As a final activity, students create their own graphic novels using comic software.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Students will research, read, clarify, analyze, and interpret John Berryman�s poetry and create a sustained evaluation of a given poem in a three- to four-page essay.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

While drafting a literary analysis essay (or another type of argument) of their own, students work in pairs to investigate advice for writing conclusions and to analyze conclusions of sample essays. They then draft two conclusions for their essay, select one, and reflect on what they have learned through the process.

Grades 9 12  |  Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Defining Moments: Charting Character Evolution in Lord of the Flies

Savagery, treachery, lost innocence� Lord of the Flies is rife with character development. Use this lesson to help students chart the character changes of Ralph and Jack, both in groups and individually.

Grades 3 12  |  Student Interactive | Organizing Summarizing

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Grades 3 12  |  Student Interactive | Organizing Summarizing

The Compare Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.

Grades 5 12  |  Calendar Activity |&nbsp December 5

Students describe female characters in Disney films, discuss their characteristics, and write a thesis statement about them.

Grades 6 12  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide clarifies the difference between persuasion and argumentation, stressing the connection between close reading of text to gather evidence and formation of a strong argumentative claim about text.

Grades 6 12  |  Strategy Guide

This Strategy Guide describes the processes involved in composing and producing audio files that are published online as podcasts.

Grades K 5  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide explains the writing process and offers practical methods for applying it in your classroom to help students become proficient writers.

Grades K 12  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide explains how to use shared writing to teach students effective strategies that will improve their own independent writing ability.

Grades K 12  |  Strategy Guide

This strategy guide explains how to use write-aloud (also known as modeled writing) to teach effective writing strategies and improve students� independent writing ability.

Grades 3 12  |  Strategy Guide

This guide introduces I-Charts, a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing.