
Monster Writing! Descriptive Writing Fun for Fall
I thought I’d share with you today a great exercise we did to kick off a big writing project. For

I thought I’d share with you today a great exercise we did to kick off a big writing project. For
If you teach “summarizing” in your classroom, you know that it is a REALLY tricky skill. Students often struggle to

It’s time once again to link up with the “Bright Ideas” link up, and today’s post is about a great

As many of you might have seen either here or on Facebook, I am one of the twelve collaborators on

For the last few weeks, I have been doing whole-class word work lessons to try to give some foundations to

As I worked with my class today on “inventing characters”, I stopped to look back at some of my anchor

Those of you who have been following me for some time may recognize this project from last year. I saw

An adage is a form of figurative language that consists of a short phrase or proverb that teaches a life

It’s time again for “Loved That Lesson”…and today I thought I’d share a simple lesson I did last week that

OK…unless my students are unusual, fourth graders don’t always love to revise. For some students, getting ideas down on paper