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3 Meaningful Ways to Get Students to Write about Reading

Connect reading and writing with meaningful activities that will help students grow as readers and flourish as writers with these easy to implement daily writing about reading ideas.

How Parents Can Help with Writing at Home

Get students writing at home with these easy to implement and screen-free tips!

Three Creative Writing Prompts for Valentine's Day

The Valentine’s Day season provides a great time for students to practice their writing in a creative format! Check out these creative writing ideas for Valentine’s Day!

Holiday Writing, Writing AssignmentsMeredith DobbsFebruary 4, 2020Valentine's Day, holiday, creative writingComment

Easy to Implement Tips to Teach Persuasive Writing

Help your upper elementary students understand the genre of persuasive writing with these tips and strategies that they can implement in their own persuasive writing pieces.

jeanine schneiderOctober 11, 2019holiday writing, persuasive writing, writing project, Halloween Writing ActivityComment

Beat Writer's Block: A Brainstorming Bonanza

To me, learning how to brainstorm is a critical skill to advance the writing process. Students genuinely need direct instruction and allocated time to practice how to brainstorm. Without teaching this skill, students are likely to deem it fruitless, skip to outlining, and eventually find themselves in a writing rut.

Step-by-Step: Tackling the Writing Process

Teaching the writing process to early writers can be challenging. Read along to find helpful strategies and ways to hold your students accountable when it comes to taking ownership of the writing process with fidelity!

How to Use Writing to Build Classroom Community

Build classroom community this back to school season with this year long writing project that will engage and connect students all year long! Building classroom community and teaching letter writing has never been easier with these simple steps.

6 Must Have Tools To Keep In Your Writing Center

7 Must-Have Tools to Keep in Your Writing Center to get your students writing from day one.

FREEBIES, Writing WorkshopGuest UserJuly 16, 2019writing center, writing workshop, beginning of the yearComment

4 Reasons to Write Bio Poems to Kick off AND Wrap up Your School Year

Bio poems are simple poems that give biographical information about one person. This type of poem follows a specific pattern of writing, responding to given prompts designed to describe the focus person of the poem. Bio poems can be written at any time during the year, and in a variety of ways to meet different writing objectives.

jeanine schneiderMay 23, 2019Bio Poems, poetry lessons, poetry writing, featured, writing teacher, upper elementary writingComment

3 End of the Year Activities To Keep Students Writing

The end of the school year is filled with a range of emotions for both teachers and students. Teachers are overwhelmed by the endless amounts of end of the year paperwork to get done but also emotional for the inevitable good bye they have to say to their students.

4 Simple Steps to Implement a Writing Carousel

Have you ever used a writing carousel in your classroom? There are many benefits to using this type of activity with your students. Writing carousels increase student engagement because students are working together and up and out of their seat moving during the entire lesson.

jeanine schneiderMarch 8, 2019Comment

4 Activities to Get Your Students Ready For Opinion Writing

Looking to help support your students before you start your opinion writing unit? Here are 4 activities to set your students up for success.

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Close Reading and Opinion Writing Practice through Holidays Around the World

Engage students with this holiday writing assignment that combines close reading with opinion writing. Your students will learn more about holiday traditions around the world as they engage in meaningful common core ELA activities.

Holiday Writing, Writing AssignmentsMelissa KruseNovember 22, 2018close reading, opinion writing, holiday writing, writing lessonComment

Holiday How-To Writing

Teachers can you hear that? It’s the sweet sound of Thanksgiving break right around the corner. A much needed vacation from report cards, conferences, and lesson planning. As exciting as this time of year is, it also means that December is knocking on our door. I don’t think it’s just me when I say that December brings its very own kind of crazy.

Holiday WritingGuest UserNovember 15, 2018writing assignments, writing activity, holiday writingComment

Top 5 Questions to Help Troubleshoot Your Writing Workshop

It’s that time of year where things are finally starting to click. The procedures have been modeled and practiced, the writing tools have been introduced, and the writing stamina is starting to grow.

3 Narrative Writing Mini-Lessons to Build Suspense

Here are my 3 favorite narrative writing mini-lessons that will have your students writing spooky Halloween stories that build suspense for their readers.

3 Genres of Writing: Narrative, Creative Writing and Poetry

Stay in the know! Read to find out how you can stay supported with incorporating genres of writing into your classroom! Gain support with Narrative Writing, Creative Writing and Poetry!

3 Reasons Why I Teach Poetry Writing All Year Long

When it comes to writing instruction in my classroom, each writing genre is taught in different units throughout the year. We always start the year with a narrative writing unit and move along to expository, opinion and persuasive writing units.

jeanine schneiderSeptember 6, 2018writing poetry, poetry lessons, writing genresComment