Adjective Chains Students learn to use a thesaurus by making paper chains of synonyms. This is a great arts &...		Research Paper: How to Write a Bibliography How to write a bibliography for a research paper.
Letter for Great Mail Race Students practice writing and word processing a letter to be used in The Great Mail Race.		Sample Essay Outlines These sample outlines will help students organize their ideas before writing an essay, a good...
Comic-Strip Challenge Use comic strips to teach students that there is a beginning, middle, and end to stories.		Transition Words and Phrases A list of transitional words and phrases and suggested uses.
Ten Tips for Writing An Essay Find tips for writing an essay, from scheduling and time-management to outlining to revision.		Tips for Revising Suggestions for revising the first draft of an essay.
Tongue Twisters As a fun way to practice reading and pronouncing words, try these tongue twisters with your...		How to Write an Essay Encourage students to follow the step-by-step directions for writing an essay.
Thankful List Teaching students to free-associate and generate a list of things they are thankful for is a...		Essay Keywords Definitions of words that help students write different types of essays.
Where Students Can Publish If you are interested in having your students' writing published, send their work to the...		Olympic Leaders Students will write a one page report from the point of view of an Olympic athlete and present...
Literary Glossary The definitions of literary terms such as memoir, tragicomedy, comedy, and more can be found in...		Quotation Marks A handout describing the proper use of quotation marks.
Research Paper: Write a First Draft How to write the first draft of a research paper.		Research Paper: Revise the First Draft Tips for revising the first draft of a research paper.
Research Paper: Use Footnotes and Endnotes How to use footnotes and endnotes in a research paper.		Commas The proper ways to uses commas are explained.