Writing Workshop: Six Helpful Ways to Improve Student Motivation
Motivating young writers can be hard. Break your students out of their fixed mindsets and help them apply growth mindset concepts with these six strategies.
Motivating young writers can be hard. Break your students out of their fixed mindsets and help them apply growth mindset concepts with these six strategies.
Students can use personal narrative mentor texts, anchor charts, and writing conferences to help them decide on a narrow topic for their small moment story.
If you’re looking for some new strategies to give your students a little more freedom with their poetry, here are anchor charts, mentor texts, and teaching tips to help.
A strong lead can give students confidence to continue their narrative writing. This post shares ways to model and encourage strong leads in your students’ writing.
For most of my 27 years of teaching, I have taught personal narratives in some way, shape or form. In doing so, I have encountered a wide variety of personal narratives to use as mentor texts. In the past, I’ve tried reading a different narrative to my students every day.
I love having writing conferences with my students. It is one of the best ways to learn about their strengths and goals in writing as well as to get to know them better as students. How do you decide what to work on with your students during conferences? I like
We recently finished our writing unit on personal narratives. As with all of my units, I like to take a little time to reflect on what went well, as well as what I would like to do differently. Today I’d like to share my thoughts and strategies on narrative leads.
I hope everyone had a restful and fun holiday season! If you’re like me, it was a little rough getting back into the working routine. Thankfully, I have 26 second graders who were happy to share their energy! I am excited to start our poetry unit, as this is one
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer! I am already in back to school mode, as we have only three weeks left of summer break. I will be out of town for four days, so it’s time to get back into the swing of things! Last year, I blogged about
My students have been working hard on their How-to writing. I always enjoy reading students’ how-to pieces. Not only do I learn about the students as writers, but I gain more insight into their areas of expertise. Sometimes, I am very surprised at the topics students choose. Today, I would