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Writing
- What's a graphic organizer? You find examples in most of the Write Source books we recommend in Classic Year-Plans, and here's a GREAT site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs. Graphic Organizers on Tap!
- If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
- Quia can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You'll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
- Or, click here for another grammar game.
- Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
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Daily Grammar.
Excellent site!
- At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia's introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!
SAT Preparation:
- SAT online question of the day
- Go to this site to answer almost any question you may have about taking the SAT, PSAT, and more!
- Test Preparation site. Looks great!
- SAT Prep Plan: Take a practice test, which generates a free test report, then create your own SAT study plan. All for FREE!
- SAT Vocabulary Words
- 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions
Evaluations and Rubrics:
- Here is a great link for evaluating writing for grades 2-5. This is an interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
- Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
- Click here to develop rubrics automatically! Show your student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him develop one) before he starts his project or writing assignment!
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Because these links are to websites not hosted by Lampstand Press, we have no control over them. If you find that one of the links on this page is broken (or no longer points to something relevant), email us at links@tapestryofgrace.com.
Week 1: When John Adams Was President
- Level 1: Patriotic coloring pages of the Presidents
- Levels 1-3: The School House Rock song called "A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing"
- Levels 3-6: Interactive review of the parts of speech.
- Levels 6-8: Simple definitions of the parts of speech to write in your notebook.
- Levels 9-12: More advanced explanation of "Steps in the Writing Process".
- Levels 10-12: Review the parts of speech.
Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career
- Levels 3-5: Your student may enjoy practicing combining words into sentences with this fun online activity.
- Levels 4-5: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
- Level 9: Transition words
Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution
- Level 2: Worksheet reviewing simple tenses in a pdf file.
- Level 2: Learn Parts of speech with Grammar.com
- Level 3: Review the parts of speech with this online game.
- Level 3: Learn parts of speech with grammar songs.
- Levels 3-8: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4-8: Links to lessons about writing paragraphs
- Levels 10-11: Transition words
- Level 12: Writing an analytical essay
Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
- Level 1: Thomas Jefferson coloring page
- Many levels: graphic organizers for prewriting
- Levels 10, 11: Taking Notes from Lectures
- Levels 10, 11: How to Take Book Notes
- Level 12: Persuasive Essay
Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court
- Level 11: Informal Outlines
Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812
- Level 1: James Madison coloring page
- Level 8: Transition Words
- Level 9: Taking Notes from Lectures
- Level 9: How to Take Book Notes
Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America
- Levels 4-8: Lecture Notes
- Level 9: Informal Outlines
- Level 10: Writing an analytical essay
- Levels 11-12: Helpful tips for a personal response to literature
Week 8: South America in Transition
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 4-8: Informal Outlines
- Level 10: How to Start/Create Your Own Website
- Level 11: Writing an analytical essay
Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 9: Book Reports
- Level 10: How to Start/Create Your Own Website
Want to suggest a resource or link? Email us at links@tapestryofgrace.com.
Because these links are to websites not hosted by Lampstand Press, we have no control over them. If you find that one of the links on this page is broken (or no longer points to something relevant), email us at links@tapestryofgrace.com.
Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments
- Level 1: John Quincy Adams coloring page
- Level 3: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4 and 5: Dictionary Activities
- Levels 4 and 5: Using a Thesaurus
- Level 6: Venn diagram
- Level 6: Compare and Contrast papers: click here and here.
- Level 7: The Book Report
- Level 8: How to Summarize: teachers and students
- Level 9: Writing a Research Paper
- Levels 10 and 11: Writing Papers of Literary Analysis
Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy
- Level 2: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4-5: Writing Reports and Accompanying Rubrics
- Level 6: Various types of 5 W's charts (scroll down just a bit)
- Level 6: Get your describing wheel here.
Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe
- Level 2: Paragraphs
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Use one of these graphic organizers for your prewriting this week.
- Level 6: Narrative Writing
- Level 8: Persuasive Writing
Week 13: Victorian England
- Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
- Levels 4-5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 6: Story map
- Level 9: A few notes on writing your first draft.
Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad
- Level 1: Good site for dictation.
- Level 2: Make a display board.
- Level 2: Examples of display boards
- Level 5: Write a compare and contrast essay
- Level 8: Story map
- Level 9: How to write a research paper.
Week 15: Manifest Destiny
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 4-5: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 9: Grading rubric for writing a research paper.
Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea
- Level 1: A practice page for name capitalization. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 11: Story map
Week 17: The Oregon Trail
- Level 1: A capitalization worksheet for days and months. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 3: Write a Compare/Contrast essay.
- Level 9: Write an Analytical Essay.
Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder
- Level 1: Practice capitalizing days of the week with this worksheet. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 3: Write a Compare/Contrast essay.
- Level 7: Write an Informative essay.
- Level 9: Write a Descriptive essay.
Want to suggest a resource or link? Email us at links@tapestryofgrace.com.
Because these links are to websites not hosted by Lampstand Press, we have no control over them. If you find that one of the links on this page is broken (or no longer points to something relevant), email us at links@tapestryofgrace.com.
Week 19: Westerners in Asia
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Ladder Diagram
- Level 8: How to Write an Analytical Essay
- Level 10: Persuasive Essay Writing
- Level 11: Good site, with an example definition essay.
Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Level 4: Cluster Diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: How to Write a Book Report, Essay of Definition
Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 5: Scholastic has a good site for learning to write biographies.
- Level 11: Writing a process essay
Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Levels 10-12: Informative site on debating
- Levels 10-12: Online Debating Tutorial
Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Very simple story map (pdf file) and describing wheel (pdf file)
- Level 6: Story map
- Level 8: Create your own Venn diagram.
- Level 9: A Brief Guide to Writing Narrative Essays
- Level 10-12: How to Debate
- Debating, by Simon Quinn (214 page pdf)
Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 8: Checklist for taking essay tests
Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
Want to suggest a resource or link? Email us at links@tapestryofgrace.com.
Because these links are to websites not hosted by Lampstand Press, we have no control over them. If you find that one of the links on this page is broken (or no longer points to something relevant), email us at links@tapestryofgrace.com.
Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 2: Sample Aesop's fables to print/show students before beginning their fables
- Great site: all the Aesop's Fables you'll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We've not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
- Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop's fables.
- Level 10: Essay of argumentation... this is a helpful website.
- Level 11: Review business communiques
Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires
- Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 8: Start using the online SAT question of the day.
Week 29: The Scramble for Empire
- Level 1: Simple instructions for writing friendly letters.
Week 30: Imperialism and Culture
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
Week 31: Waves of Immigrants
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 8, and 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here.
Week 32: Captains of Industry
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 4: Here is a cover that you can use for your state notebook. (pdf file)
- Level 4: Click here for a ready-to-use Table of Contents for your notebook. (pdf file)
Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 7, 9: Public speaking website
Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards
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Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women
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Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism
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