Read. Think. Rewrite. Imagine. List. These simple ideas will turn your students into creative writers. Downloads Narrative Writers' Craft …
Explore MoreCarpenters use wood, jewelers gold and silver, masons, stone. Writers use words, and the more precise the word, the more clear the meaning. Every writer should wrestle with this word …
Explore MoreWhat’s the best way to get students to not only identify parts of speech, but to have them recognize why it’s important? How vivid verbs can create action and a …
Explore MorePunctuation is a lot more than rules for writing. Punctuation and capitalization help the reader understand what the writer intended. Read the following unpunctuated sentence: katherine went to the beach …
Explore MoreOne lament we hear from teachers is this: how in the world do we teach sentence structure? Kids learn through modeling, of course, but often that’s not enough. They need …
Explore MoreYou’ve spent weeks and months teaching expository writing – so many key skills to remember and apply! And sometimes after just a long weekend students come back and seem to …
Explore MoreMy second grade class became obsessed with similes after reading Roald Dahl’s “The BFG”. He described one terrifying giant as having a nose “as sharp as a knife.” When my …
Explore MoreAsk a group of fourth graders to “take notes” and you’re likely to get one of two responses – blank looks or anxious glances from kids trying to copy down …
Explore MoreIn this age of texts, tweets, and email, it might seem like letter writing is a dying art! However, there are times when Grandma deserves a thank you note, a …
Explore MoreHave you ever had a student begin a story in third person point of view (about a character they name, let’s say Jenny) and several sentences in revert to first …
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