Improving Writing

‘Add more variety!’ teachers say. But how? This lesson gives students actual techniques instead of vague advice.

We’ll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.

Your students’ sentences all start the same way. Here are three techniques that fix that overnight.

What happens when a pronoun could refer to more than one noun? Big problems!

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be writing sentences with three dependent clauses.

In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.