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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
   What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Creative Writing in the Natural World: A Framing
   Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
   Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments
   Using a hypothetical situation, students generate arguments from opposing points of view, discover areas of commonality using Venn diagrams, and construct logical, audience-specific arguments to persuade their opponents.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Is a Sentence a Poem?
   Students use their own poetry to analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a one-sentence poem by a canonical author to decide what makes it a poem.
   
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Loaded Words: Vocabulary That Packs a Punch in Persuasive Writing
    In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader.

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