The beginning of the school year is the perfect time to start off strong with your reading and writing instruction. As you start heading back to school, in addition to focusing on the typical do’s and don’t for a new school year, here are 4 tips on how to start off strong with literacy in your classroom. Communicate with Parents…
Strong sentence understanding is the key to students producing strong writing pieces. Maybe this sounds like something that doesn’t even need to be said to you. However, I’ve found that teachers often don’t spend enough time developing firm sentence understanding in their students. This leads to frustrated teachers and students who lack confidence. So, let’s explore why strong sentence skills…
Once student have basic sentences down, sometimes it can be hard to encourage them to create more interesting, complex sentences. We want our students to expand their sentences, but how can we help them understand how to do it? The most simple solution is to teach our students to expand sentences using their senses. This simple strategy is an effective…
Building Confidence in your writers is important. Confident writers are more willing to take risks and try new things. I’ve previously written about ways to boost your writer’s confidence. Here are three ways to specifically boost developing or beginning writer’s confidence. Share a variety of mentor texts to boost writer confidence First, good quality mentor texts are super important for…
It’s important to celebrate when students complete a writing piece. However, that can be tricky if you’re teaching digitally. Here are 3 simple ways to celebrate students’ published writing digitally. Celebrating when students finish a writing piece is so important that I include it in every week of my writing curriculum. In the classroom, it can be really simple to…