These materials come from real classrooms. They are effective in facilitating peer learning and writing improvement.
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Introductory Activities
- Start with How and Why – one brief write-review-plan cycle
This activity asks students to respond
- Framing Feedback and Revision – 2 writing, review, and revision tasks
These curriculum materials are primarily designed to help orient students to a feedback-rich classroom and to help improve student buy-in to feedback and revision.
- First-Day Ice Breaker Activity – 2 tasks, any experience level
“Ice-breaker” activities great for getting students signed in to Eli and familiar with the system, perfect for a single class session.
College Examples
- Science Writing Curriculum – complete 16-week course
This complete course helps students learn the genres and conventions of science writing, developing components individually and assembling them into a full journal article.
- The Essential Moves of Technical Communication – 3 writing tasks, 6 reviews. These exercises are designed to help students learn six important rhetorical moves that are at the heart of effective technical communication.
High School Examples
- SAT Essay Curriculum – 27 writing, review, and revision tasks
These resources provided a customizable set of materials to help students learn and practice the analytical writing skills behind the new writing prompt for the SAT.
- High Art Evaluative Essay – 3 tasks, any experience level
A project for an AP Language and Composition course designed to teach criteria-driven argument, multi-modal composition, and audience awareness.
- ACT Writing Coach Curriculum – 6 writing tasks, 7 reviews
This 8-week practice curriculum is designed to help coach students through the moves that make a highly-scored ACT essay by breaking down criteria and repeated write-review-revise cycles.
Other Teacher Resources
