
Improving elaboration in our writing!
If you have been following along with recent blog posts, you know that we have been working on narrative writing.

If you have been following along with recent blog posts, you know that we have been working on narrative writing.

Today we continued our focus on narrative writing by using our planning sheets from yesterday to dig into writing a
Today started like any other day . . . kids were a little chatty . . . a parent stopped

A number of years ago, I discovered a professional book that made a tremendous difference in the way I taught

Hello! The quest to write our first literary essay continued today as we revisited the work we did on Friday

Hello! I don’t know about you–but I can’t lie. I am excited to have a four day week and a

Exhausting! Today I pounded through 19 writing conferences! We are in the middle of a REALLY nifty writing unit to

Wow… I’m not really sure how to start this entry. Honestly, I wish I had this lesson on video. It

If you are like me, you are constantly stressing out about making sure your students are learning and growing. If

We are finishing our “Feature Article” unit today, and I thought I’d share FIVE things we learned while writing them.