Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...

For this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.

Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...

This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.

During this interactive lesson, students will determine the number of finite verbs in each sentence or fragment.

What is the correct punctuation between two independent clauses? Use this site to learn more about the rules to follow.

Help your students solve subtraction number sentences by using the part/part/whole model. This lesson shows students how to separate parts from a whole or by comparison to understand the subtraction number sentences. Lesson includes...

Ambrose Bierce is famous for his writings on the Civil War and showing the brutality that occurred. "Two Military Executions" is short story about a young soldier sentenced to death for hitting an officer. Read the full text on this site.

Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach dialogue in context with mentor sentences.

In this task, 6th graders solve fraction division problems by drawing a picture and writing a number sentence. Aligns with 6.NS.A.1.

This website provides two presentations on active and passive voice. The first presentation explains the difference between active and passive voice as well as how to build sentences in each voice. The second presentation explains when...

The Purdue University Writing Lab explains appositives and their punctuation. Example sentences followed by a ten-sentence exercise. Answer key supplied.

A lesson plan for helping students to solve real world problems by using their mathematical tools.

Here's a project where you can try your hand at being a detective with your computer. In this project you'll write a program to do some basic analysis of features of written text (for example, counting the length of each word in the...