Thankful Writing Activity: Easy Expository Writing Lesson
…upper elementary students because it’s so easy to organize and write. The final essays make a great gift for their families on Thanksgiving Day, too! To begin the Thankful Writing…
…upper elementary students because it’s so easy to organize and write. The final essays make a great gift for their families on Thanksgiving Day, too! To begin the Thankful Writing…
…the fundamentals of Whole Brain Teaching, we had no problem agreeing that Rule 1, for classroom management, should be “Follow directions quickly!” Slow transitions from reading to writing to math…
…online assessment tool, and I wanted to share it with teachers. I ended up spending over a week writing the post and creating a free tutorial to go with it….
…of the 4-square planner is that it’s not mode-specific. We used this planner for opinion writing, narrative writing, and inform/explain writing. We could meet and teach all components of the…
…(I use the glass ones, but for younger kids you could use plastic) and with a silver or gold Sharpie write their name with the year then write “Love, Mrs….
…my Teachers Pay Teacher store! Letter writing is a wonderful way to keep even the most reluctant writers writing and to hone those writing skills all year long! Mary teaches…
…I always work too fast so I probably did better since I had to write them down.” I just laughed when I read that last comment because it’s exactly the…
…was nothing about appreciating poetry or making connections to one’s own life. The writing standards were even worse. Everything was either about narrative writing or expository writing, but there was…
How do you encourage your students to write longer, more interesting sentences? You know what will happen if you simply ask them to write longer sentences… they’ll just add more…
…super easy tutorial on how to make bucket seats from those cheap 5-gallon paint buckets that you can get from pretty much any home improvement store. I actually got mine…
…poetry-writing assignments, your poems probably had to rhyme which meant never being able to write in your own voice. Writing rhyming poetry is an art, and it’s not something that…
…online games such as the skill races at Arcademic Skill Builders or the stories read aloud on StoryLine Online. I’ve also begun to research iPad and iPod apps for kids,…
