This would be an excellent introductory tutorial for the research unit. Covers picking and focusing a topic, detecting bias, evaluating sources, drawing conclusions, supporting evidence, applying knowledge, and appealing to target audience.

Revising for relevance/unity

MC assessment Includes parts of speech, usage, confused words, punctuation, parallel structure, correct modification, etc. 77 questions provide instant feedback upon submission.

Articles from all over the internet; wide variety of topics and interests. These articles have been tagged as "intermediate" -- texts and audio provided.

Excellent repository of high interest texts from around the internet; text and audio provided. This particular collection is categorized as "advanced" reading.

Comprehensive lesson on comparison contrast writing

Excellent resource for creating quick quizzes.

This is an excellent packet on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions used to compare and contrast. It also has a section on using present and past tense verbs to compare and contrast events in time.

Interesting article on the promise and pitfalls of natural gas as fuel for vehicles

A brief but interesting article on how car industry marketed cars to the public

This is a National Geographic Article we can use as a mentor text for word choice.

This packet already has word choice exercises on specific nouns, action verbs, and vivid adjectives for students to complete.

From the Tongue Untied website. The approach is more on the functional grammar side, so students have to identify how the noun is working: direct object, indirect object, predicate noun, object of preposition, subject.

This is a collection of paragraphs that have been scrambled. We can use these for assessments on "Reordering" information to improve coherence. Apparently this skill is part of an entrance exam to exclusive schools in New York.

This is a collection of 6 Traits rubrics we might be able to adapt for our needs.

From the Ready Theory people, this site has plenty of pdf's on parts of speech, paragraph correction, and writing practice.

Includes excellent handouts and worksheets for editing, revising, grammar, etc. We can use some of these for assessments via Quia.