There's a lot of ground to cover when you teach creative narrative writing. Here are 5 creative narrative mini-lessons you should be sure to use!
Writing thesis statements strikes fear into many students' hearts. I have developed a way of getting from a broad topic to a thesis stat...
Help your primary grade students explore, learn, and write about landforms. See our hands-on landforms activities plus our culminating writing project!
Are you creating a fantasy world with magic? If you want to give your characters some interesting and unique abilities, here are some ideas.
We love this Dandelion Wish Craft for a variety of times throughout the year. Use this as a beginning of the year activity to brainstorm what goals students would like to accomplish this year. Use this as a New Year’s activity after Christmas break to imagine what this year will bring! Use this as an ... Read More about Dandelion Wish Craft + Writing
We had another class Monday night with our new dual/ELL staff members, and this time we focused on differentiation and what that may look like across the subject areas. As we have done in the past, we had the teachers participate in a gallery walk and thus rotate around with their groups to add to a series of posters focused on this topic of differentiation. Yet again, our wonderful staff did not disappoint and came up with a wide assortment of ideas as to how instruction can be differentiated for our students! I typed up their ideas on a nice one page spread for them, and thought you all may find it useful as well! Click on it to grab a copy for yourself or a friend. Graphics/Fonts: Scrappin' Doodles, Rowdy Fonts, My Cute Graphics Also, (as if you haven't already heard ;)), I wanted to let you all in on the big secret. TpT will be hosting a "3 Million Teachers Strong" sale February 27-28th. In using promo code TPT3, you can get up to 28% off at my store along with so many more! How exciting is it to see this community of teachers growing and working together :)!
Teaching writing can be a stressor for a lot of primary teachers! Engaging Writing is a HUGE help! Simple, effective and quick meaningful writing lessons!
One of our activities this week included talking about some of our favorite things. We then made these super, cute people to go with our wri...
Why I teach comics.
Learn about the benefits of monthly writing prompts for kids. This article gives examples for each month as well as a free writing calendar.
Jami Gold's Writing Worksheets: Help for all writers, from newbies to experts and from plotters to pantsers.
The majority of singular nouns are made plural simply by adding an S on to the end of the word. However, there are many different rules depending on what letter the word ends in.
Using sentence frames to get ell students writing. Click here for more:
How To Write A Poetry Book In 12 Simple Steps Table of Contents Set up your writing space. Starting (and finishing) a poetry book is a long-term commitment. You will spend many hours cultivating your poetry collection, so one of the most important considerations is where you will write. People organise their writing spaces differently, [...]
Learn how to use picture writing prompts to keep elementary students engaged, writing, and having fun with the great ideas and suggestions here.
Is this little known learning difference limiting your child's academic success? Learn more about common dysgraphia symptoms you may be missing. You may never have heard of dysgraphia, but it may very well effect your
This Preptober Prompt Schedule will slide nicely into your traveler’s journal and help you prepare for your best. NaNo. ever. I’ve tried to keep the prompts as general as possible, so that they work for pantsers, plotters, and plantsers alike. However, in case you don’t like my prompts, I’ve included a blank template too. P.S.…
Tunnel books are fun and unique! We made ours using a postcard for a prompt and wrote a haiku to go with it. I've made these with grade 4 and up, but younger students could enjoy this activity in "centers", with the help of parent volunteers, or by having the various parts prepped for them ahead of time. There are lots of different directions you could take this project. We added a pocket on the back for holding a written story that we added later. See a few of our student examples below!For a convenient step-by-step pdf of this lesson, visit my TPT Store
6 story structures, complete with story structure charts to help you create an original plot and outline your next novel.
Is it just me or do second graders can not write sentences? These activities are the perfect way to teach your students how to write better sentences!
Paragraph writing is a big challenge for many students. This post includes a step-by-step method to help your students write great paragraphs in no time.
With single-point rubrics, the focus is on providing evidence of meeting, exceeding, or falling short of the quality you're looking for.
This year for preschool we are part of a co-op preschool group. I put together name recognition activities for all the kids in the preschool. Here are the activities. Name sticks To make this activity. I got paint stick stirrers and used Mod Podge to glue the letters of the child's name on to the stick. Then used mounting tape to stick the letters onto the clothespins. Your child matches up the letters to spell their name. Name Block Matching This can be made in any word document or you could make make it easily be hand. Name Puzzles Here are free puzzles patterns for 4, 5, 6, and 7 letters names. You can either hand write your child's name or open in a word document to add your child's name Just right click on the each image, save and print. I recommend printing on cardstock paper so it is more durable 4 letter name 5 letter name 6 letter name 7 letter name Name Tracing You can download free front from this website to make these tracing cards in a word document. The font is called ABC Print Dotted. This is laminated and so it can be used over and over again. Name Path For this activity, you can use any word document and create a table. Then can choose what letters you want to use and what path to create to spell your child's name. This is also laminated so it is reusable. Progressive Name Tracing This idea is also part of the Preschool learning binder I put together. I download free front from this website to make this in a word documents. The names of the fonts are ABC Print Arrow, ABC Print Arrow Dotted, and ABC Print Dotted. All of these activities are stored in a laminated 9 x 12 folder. I used an X-acto knife to cut a slip in the top. I like this folder idea because it keeps things together and can be passed around easily to each home when it it our turn to teach preschool.
Unlock your songwriting potential with these 20 tips that will genuinely enhance your creativity to write music. Enjoy our list of the songwriting tips
Are you one of the many teachers who is struggling to teach summarizing? Summarizing can be a difficult skill for students to master. It requires strong reading comprehension since students need to be able to
Three fun and engaging Lord of the Flies introduction activity ideas that will hook students from day one!
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Letter writing is easy with this free lined paper printable! It's inspired by the Fundations style, with a sky line, plane line, grass line, and worm line.
I may have gone overboard on the photos for this post, but this is one of my favourite art lessons so far. I was inspired by this ph...
