Improving our sentences…task card style!
One thing that continues to challenge me as a writing teacher is helping my students push themselves outside of their
One thing that continues to challenge me as a writing teacher is helping my students push themselves outside of their
As we begin our unit on opinion writing, I wanted my students to realize that there are many different types
As many of you might have seen either here or on Facebook, I am one of the twelve collaborators on
As I worked with my class today on “inventing characters”, I stopped to look back at some of my anchor
OK…unless my students are unusual, fourth graders don’t always love to revise. For some students, getting ideas down on paper
Teaching writing is hard. REALLY hard. There are so many components to teaching it–from dealing with students who have fine
If your school is like mine, you have some common rubrics for scoring writing. If your school is like mine,
If you have followed me for the last year, this post may look a little familiar. It’s come around to
My current reading and writing unit is asking students to dig deeper into familiar texts to see some of the
Sigh. This is one of those tasks that I KNOW is so important but that I just dread. Whether it’s