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.
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.
Feedback is important to help our young learners continue to grow. This includes feedback from teachers as well as feedback from peers. Today, I am talking specifically about peer feedback. Peer feedback can be very powerful if it is done effectively, and it can be integrated in many different areas
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
Last week, we started our informational writing unit. This is one of my favorite units because we allow the students to research whatever topic they want. My students have become very adept at using Google Docs and Slides, so I can’t wait to turn them loose and see what types