Writing strategies

Make the walls of your classroom work for you and your students! Ideas for planning a Writing Wall that will truly support your little writers.

Teaching kids to write strong beginnings to their personal narratives has always been challenging. And then I found this Uh-mazing anchor chart on Pinterest: Turns out it is from one of my favorite blogs! Stephanie at Third Grade Thoughts wrote about using her chart here. She wrote about it way back in March before I started following her. Thank you for posting exactly what I needed 7 months before I even needed it! I made my own copycat anchor chart. The first day I introduced the…

“Encourage your children to 'dig deep' for detailed sentences! See the full image at http://t.co/uHvrre5CWY”

Hello Everyone!! Happy New year to all of you! The end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016 have been very emotional for me. We started off our winter break visiting my son, Jordan in Indiana. He has m

Description Give your writers this tool in order to assist them in their writing craft.

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Description Thank you for viewing my editing and revising pack! I have used these two strategies with my students for awhile. They write the letters at the top of their paper and cross them off as they complete each step. I hope you can use them in your classroom too! I have include a single sheet with both strategies on it. I have used this in the following ways: Laminated and kept in desk In a sheet protector in students’ ELA binders Reduced size in ELA journal I begin by teaching COPS as…

Great ideas in this blog post for organizing anchor charts on a writing wall!

Teaching Fourth: Informational Writing Tips- Writing Introductory Paragraphs