Art & Science of Teaching Elementary Writing Pt. 1
I was a business major in college, and an actor after college, before I became a teacher. I have always had in interest in both creativity and productivity. Nowhere in the teaching of elementary...
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Teaching writing involves teaching with the end in mind. When writing goals and expectations are clear, students do not perceive their writing assignments as busy work. Here are THREE GREAT RESOURCES...
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The Six Traits of Writing In teaching elementary students how to write well, there is grammar and there is writing. Many teachers teach A LOT of grammar because when it comes to teaching writing they...
View ArticleHow to Get Students Organized – The Student Notebook System
Improve Student Organization and You Will Bring Lasting Results As discussed previously, there seems to be a link between organizational skills and student success. Improving student organizational...
View ArticleTips for Teaching Writing: Teaching Students to Write About the Extraordinary...
Should You Teach Your Students to INVENT a Good Story, or to TELL a Good Story? The truth is that there is very little difference between a personal narrative essay and a fiction story. After all, who...
View ArticleTeaching ESL | Authentic Written Communication is the Key for Student Success!
Grammar, Vocabulary, Worksheets… NOT! Grammar, phonics… whatever my students need is what I want to teach. I can get as excited about the sound of a single letter as I can about an entire essay....
View ArticleTeaching Children to Write FAST Using the Timed Writing System
What is the goal of your writing instruction? • Is your instruction geared to helping your students become the next great American novelist? • Is your primary goal to make sure that your students never...
View ArticleWhat Would The Ultimate K-12 Writing Curriculum Look Like?
Do you struggle with teaching writing? Do your students struggle with writing? Does their writing frustrate you? Does your writing instruction bore them? Do you believe there has to be a more...
View ArticleTop Tips for Improving Student Engagement
There is little more important in the world of education today than improving student engagement. If you want: • Yourself to enjoy teaching. • Your students to enjoy school. • Your students’ test...
View ArticleThe Four Learning Styles in Teaching Writing
A Learning Style Model Based on the Questions Your Students Want Answered There are many interesting models for analyzing students’ different learning styles. Here is a practical model which may change...
View ArticleConnecting Reading and Writing
The Research Shows Series: The Reading / Writing Connection The Reading/Writing connection – we all know it exists! But how are they connected? How do we connect them? Welcome to “The Research Shows”...
View ArticleUsing Social Studies to Improve Student Writing
The Research Shows Series: Writing and Social Studies – Writing Across the Curriculum Students must write across the curriculum; and I do not mean fill-in-the-blank workbook pages. Writing helps...
View ArticleToday’s Best Practices in Teaching Writing
The Research Shows Series: Current Views on Teaching Writing and Writer’s Workshop What are today’s best practices in teaching writing? Decades of research have shown that isolated skill drills do...
View ArticleIdeas for Publishing Student Writing
The Research Shows Series: Publishing Student Writing What happens when no one ever sees a child’s writing? You guessed it, decreased motivation and lower quality writing. Publishing student writing...
View ArticleStudent Journal Writing – Tips and Traps
The Research Shows Series: Journal Writing in the Classroom You may want to skip right down to the “Possible Benefits”, “Problems”, and “Recommendations” section of this article. The first section...
View ArticleTeaching Students How to Revise
The Research Shows Series: Revision What does the research show about teaching students how to revise their own writing? Do teachers and students perceive revision the same way? Are computers a help or...
View ArticleResearch on Effective Writing Instruction
The Research Shows Series: Effective Writing Instruction The research shows that students must write more! However, the research also shows that “fill in the blank” and “short answer” isolated skill...
View ArticleChanging Views on Teaching Children to Write
The Research Shows Series: Changes in Teaching Writing How has writing instruction changed over the last few decades? What are the most effective strategies for teaching writing? What is the difference...
View ArticleTeaching Children Creative Writing
The Research Shows Series: Elementary School Creative Writing What is creative writing? Poetry is considered creative writing. That should be no surprise! Where things get tricky is “narrative...
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