This resource provides ten activities for informative writing.
This resource gives students the opportunity to analyze multiple articles in a magazine or newspaper and define how they use both language and perspective to develop the overall piece.
In this lesson asks students to reflect on their writing process, and helps the teacher learn more about students' habits and techniques as writers. Students begin by reading and analyzing the poem "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur, particularly discussing the use of extended metaphor. Students then reflect on their own writing habits, compare themselves as writers to the writer in the poem, and brainstorm possible metaphors for themselves as writers.