Writing

Google Slides, Writing

How to Make Digital Writing Work for Primary Students: Distance Learning

Writing during distance learning, especially for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students, presents challenges. Although it’s not the ideal way to teach writing, there are some actionable steps you can take to make it easier on you and your students. 1. Accept that Virtual Writing Lessons are not the Same First, it’s important to keep in mind that your…

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Math, Misc., Reading, Writing

25+ Simple Home Learning Activities for Pre-K to First Grade

Keeping kids busy at home can be challenging, especially if you want to ensure that they’re continuing to learn as well. Here are some simple activities that you can do at home with your little ones. Hands on Alphabet Ideas If you’d like to practice the alphabet with your little ones, you can easily use items around your house like…

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Classroom Management, Writing

3 Tried and True Ways to Help Our Students Plan Their Writing

Learning how to plan writing is incredibly important. If we are able to teach students how to make a plan before beginning writing, we are setting them up for writing success. If students don’t learn how to plan their writing, we end up with very long stories that don’t make sense, or super short stories that are lacking in detail. Today I’m going…

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Intervention, Writing

Understanding Sentences: Using Subject and Predicate to Improve Student Writing

Understanding how to write complete sentences, knowing where to put punctuation between sentences to avoid run on and fragments, and understanding what makes a complete simple sentence is a difficult skill! This post will share how to teach these skills using subject and predicate. Subject and Predicate: What’s That? Do your students know what a subject and predicate is? My…

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Reading, Writing

How to Ignite Student Writing With Rich Literature

Student writing and reading are intrinsically linked. As teachers, it’s not just our responsibility to teach our students the mechanics of writing and reading. Rather, we must work to ignite a passion for both! That connection between reading and writing is key to unlocking our students hidden potential as strong writers. We can use rich literature as mentor text (read more about why…

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