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!
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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.
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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.
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Here are my 3 favorite narrative writing mini-lessons that will have your students writing spooky Halloween stories that build suspense for their readers.
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One area of narrative writing that my students continue to need practice is with elaborating details. When my students write to tell a story, they generally want to get the information out in the shortest way possible. Getting them to stop the story and elaborate on details is often a challenge. Adding descriptive details is a learned skill in which students need to be given support and lots of practice.
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Spend some quality time learning, laughing, and talking as you share these Thanksgiving writing activities at your dinner table this holiday season.
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