15 Writing Lessons BUNDLE

Teaching writing can be a challenge, but these fifteen complete no-prep lessons will help make writing engaging and fun, whilst also teaching rigorous skills and content.

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Suggestions For Use

(1) These lessons would make a great addition to any larger writing unit.
(2) Perfect for substitute lessons (you will leave you students knowing that they will have an engaging and academically challenging lesson).
(3) Great for that one lesson break between other units.
(4) Keep these lessons in a binder in your class, and you’ll be ready in a last-minute emergency.

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LESSONS INCLUDED

Teaching Indirect Characterization
Once they fully comprehend the concept of indirect characterization, students will become more critical readers, as well as more proficient writers. This lesson aims to facilitate this process.

Writing An Article Based on a Fairy Tale
Students need to learn the mechanics of writing articles, for both writing and informative text reading purposes. This lesson aims to teach this skill with a fun spin of writing articles based on childhood fairy tales.

Learning To Write A Compare/Contrast Essay
Expository essay writing is a key component of most ELA curricula, and the compare-and-contrast essay is one with which students need to be familiar. This lesson aims to help them comprehend the planning which goes into such a compare-and-contrast essay.

Understanding Register In Writing
Before writing any type of piece, students should understand the register they are expected to use when writing. This lesson will help teach that skill so that they always use the appropriate style and language in their writing.

Why Do We Have To Study Grammar?
Students often feel that studying grammar is irrelevant. This lesson aims to disprove this idea by taking three different grammatical concepts and showing students how knowledge of these can enhance their writing skills.

Learning To Write A Summary
Summary writing is a vital skill, which any English Language Arts student should acquire; learning to summarize will help them learn to analyze what they read, write concisely and paraphrase.

Thinking About Tone in Writing
Once students understand the subtleties of tone and word choice, they will be able to really hone their writing skills, and write more confidently and concisely. Moreover, it will also help them identify and analyze tone in literature. This lesson plans to help students understand this skill.

Great Essay Introductions
Introductions are arguably the most important element of an essay - they are students’ only chance to make a great first impression on their reader: to dazzle them with their writing and concisely lay out their thoughts. This lesson aims to help students with learning this skill.

Writing Figuratively
Students are often taught to name figurative language techniques, but rarely learn how to effectively incorporate them into their own writing - this lesson aims to remedy this!

Writing To Persuade
It is vital that, as part of their English language education, students are taught to understand, identify and use persuasive language techniques. This lesson will help assess and consolidate that knowledge.

The Story Behind the Painting
This 2-day lesson plan helps students consolidate their understanding of plot structure, and apply it to their own stories based on a famous painting.

Playing With Narrative Perspective
Students need to have a solid understanding of the types of narrative perspective when writing creatively, but also when studying literature. This lesson will help consolidate their understanding of the main types of narrative point of view.

Writing A Parent's Diary
How might teenagers react differently to their parents/guardians if they tried to step into their shoes and see things from their perspective? This writing assignment forces them to do just that. It is an engaging lesson which gets students empathizing with their parents, and helps you to learn a little more about them.

Writing A Horror Story
Halloween is a fun time to look at scary stories, and a great opportunity to get students to buy into writing! This three-day activity really focuses students on developing a short story from start to finish.

An Open Letter to Teachers
With the proliferation of the Internet & social media, open letters have become a common form of expression. This lesson focuses on analyzing this form of writing, & helping students to write their own open letters to teachers.

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EACH LESSON CONTAINS

- Step-by-step lesson plan which will guide you through all of the discussions, explanations and activities.
- Multiple worksheets, handouts and graphic organizers for students.
- Comprehensive answer keys (where relevant).
- Suggestions for homework and extension work.

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