Posts for the 'Writing' Category


Tips for Using Graphic Organizers

September 2nd, 2009

Graphic organizers are a great way to help simplify material. However, if they are too complicated, they can actually distract from the concepts you are trying to teach. Here are a few tips that should help you get the most out of using graphic organizers.
Keep the structure of the organizer simple. Try to make the [...]

Perfect Paragraph Moderation

August 31st, 2009

Directions: Write a paragraph with 6-8 sentences using these quotes. Which one do you most agree with? Why? Cite at least one of the quotes in your answer.

“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.” – Horace (Roman poet)
“Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.” [...]

Complete Sentences Exercise

August 11th, 2009

A sentence must have a subject (the doer) and a verb (the action). Without both, the sentence does not express a complete thought, and it is a sentence fragment.
Identify each as fragment or complete.

The mouse in the corner.
The last thing I had to do.
Angel read last night.
Over the hills and through the woods.
They took out [...]

Perfect Paragraph Your Philosophy of Life

August 4th, 2009

Directions: Write a paragraph with 6-8 sentences that explains which life philosophy best describes yours? Give examples of how you live your life in this way.
Life is great.
Life is unfair.
Life is what you make it.

Perfect Paragraph Hard Work

August 3rd, 2009

Directions: Write a paragraph with 6-8 sentences using these quotes. Which one do you most agree with? Why? Cite at least one of the quotes in your answer.
“They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.” – Ronald Reagan
“If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no [...]