This post will give teachers and homeschool parents ideas to help students understand the task at hand, the purpose for students’ writing, and the audience who will be reading their... Read More
Are you ready to give your students a narrative writing prompt but don’t know where to start? The first step of the writing process is prewriting. This post will focus... Read More
Are you getting ready to teach narrative writing? This post will give you 3 steps to prepare for narrative writing and is ideal for any writing curriculum that includes narrative... Read More
Coming off of Thanksgiving break and knowing that Christmas is all around us, it is often difficult to keep my little elves motivated to learn. I like to find interesting... Read More
What is the writing process? The writing process is a way to promote successful writers. It provides steps for students to use when writing. Every writing program out there will... Read More
Are you looking for ideas for a table of contents for interactive writing notebooks? These ideas are ideal for any writing curriculum and are a part of a series of... Read More
Do your students need help finishing a paragraph? This post will not only show you how to teach CLOSING SENTENCES, it will also show you ways to help your students... Read More
I am so stinking excited to teach Secret Garden this year. I took my old version of the unit activities and completely did a facelift! You won’t even recognize it!... Read More
Do you need ideas for teaching students about RELEVANT DETAILS? This writing mini lesson will provide ideas for teaching students about writing relevant details in a paragraph including TRANSITION WORDS... Read More
Are your students writing run-on sentences? This lesson will focus on how to correct them. These ideas are ideal for any writing curriculum and are a part of a series... Read More
Are your students writing in fragments? Often times students will write an incomplete sentence and it will cause confusion to the reader and disrupt the flow of the paragraph. These ideas... Read More
This lesson will focus on writing COMPLETE SENTENCES using subjects and predicates. Writing in complete sentences is the first basic writing lesson every student should learn. Sentence structure is important... Read More
Are you looking for ideas to help your students become successful writers? This post begins a series 30+ writing mini lessons that has proven to help students write effectively. It... Read More
Techniques for Teaching Writing In order to have an effective writing program, it is important to use a variety of teaching techniques. Modeled Writing Use the think-aloud strategy- Talk aloud as... Read More
Boy oh boy has it been a busy beginning of the year! Our school got ipads this year and every single second I am not teaching, I am working on... Read More
Although I’ve been teaching for a bajillion years, I still find that the littlest organizing tip goes a long way! I am going to mix a few of my... Read More
This STEP-BY-STEP INTERACTIVE WRITING NOTEBOOK is a complete Step-By-Step WRITER’S WORKSHOP program with engaging lessons, anchor charts, modeling, mentor text, interactive notebook pages, practice and all the tools necessary to... Read More
DIY- Super Easy Classroom Curtains- I am not kidding when I tell you it took me 5 minutes to do this! 1. I bought one 84″ long curtain from Target... Read More
Prepare Your Classroom 1. Writing Process with clothespins 2. Million Dollar Word Bulletin Board- I put up the FAAVS (Figurative Language, Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs, and Sense Words) As students use... Read More