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.
3 Free Verse Poetry Teaching Ideas
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.
Personal Narratives with Strong Leads
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.
Three Ways to Foster Effective Peer Feedback
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
Using Mentor Texts for Personal Narratives
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
Preparing for Individual Writing Conferences with Students
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
Teaching Students to Compose Strong Narrative Leads
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
Haiku: Great Mentor Texts & a Freebie
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.
Writing Engagement Inventory
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.
Getting Ready to Write a How-to Book
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
Noticing Text Features
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
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