Teaching Persuasive Writing
Kids are natural persuaders. In our classroom, we often engage in silly debates (is water wet?) and sometimes my students…
Tips for Teaching Narrative Writing in Upper Elementary
Narrative writing is my favorite unit to teach with upper elementary students because it’s a chance for students’ creativity to…
How to Teach Descriptive Writing in Upper Elementary
If you’ve ever read your elementary students’ writing and felt that something was missing, it’s possible that your students are…
Weekly Letter Writing to Build Community
Years ago, I shared this idea as a free resource on TpT, but I’ve never gotten around to explaining my weekly…
Thanksgiving Writing Activity
Hi there! Can you believe there is only a week until Thanksgiving!? I am in total disbelief that it’s already November 14th……
Complete Sentences and Beyond!
Even though I teach fourth grade, I still find that, at the beginning of the year, I have many, many…
Teaching Students to Dissect Responding to Reading Prompts
I have a list a mile long of activities and concepts that I want and need to blog about, but…
Coordinating Conjunctions and Compound Sentences
One of my big goals this year is to make writing as FUN and ENGAGING as I possibly can. So many…
Teaching Quotation Marks and Dialogue
We’ve been busy working on narratives in writing (post about that coming soon!), so it seemed like the perfect time…
Writing Summaries
Hi there! I’m popping in today to share with you our method for writing summaries. Just like our topic sentence…
Topic Sentences
I am so lucky to be working side-be-side with the creator of an incredible writing program this year, and this…
Figurative Language Review
I have been trying to write this post for two weeks now! Between home, school and a few new resources…
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