CHOICE BOARDS
These writing summer skill-building and retention activities for elementary students are perfect for summer writing…
CLASSROOM TOOLS
Use these handwriting report card comments and phrases to ease the report card crunch. Easy to modify and tailor to…
TEACHING RESOURCE
In shared writing, the teacher and students compose text together, with both contributing their thoughts and ideas to…
Learn how to incorporate journaling in your classroom. Teachers can use journaling as a kind of window into how students…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Five elements of a story's plot (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) provide the…
WORKSHEETS
Use writing prompts to get children's imaginations and writing skills flowing. This is a sample page from the Gr. 1-4…
Use this printable to have students create their own back to school Mad Libs® stories. Students supply key words (nouns,…
Writing aloud, or modeled writing, is a strategy wherein teachers use a "think aloud" strategy to share their thinking…
LESSON PLANS
Teach your students how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book Chrysanthemum with your class.
Use this guide to help students write a descriptive paragraph about a friend. This printable works well as part of an…
Help students identify main idea and supporting details with this printable graphic organizer. This printable is…
Finalize your lessons on how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book The Great Kapok Tree with your class.
A writing workshop is a block of time set aside in the school day to focus exclusively on the writing process.
ACTIVITIES
Teaching kids how to write can be difficult in the best of circumstances. It can be hard. It can be frustrating. It can…
Author’s Chair is the final step in the writing process. Read our guide to learn about this strategy, its purpose, and…
GAMES AND APPS
Learn how you can use Mad Libs© in your classroom to teach reading and language arts. These activities are a fun way to…
Improve students' writing skills with these 25 ways to motivate young writers.
An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and meanings of individual words, sentences,…
The story is out of order! Arrange the sentences in the correct sequence.
This lesson, to be completed after reading The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain, has students practice their journaling…
The writing conference is a one-on-one strategy, that takes place between the student writer and the teacher.
Try a printable creative writing activity that focuses on fantasizing about life on other planets.
A word search, drawing and coloring sheets, and a fill-in-the-blank story activity will extend students' enjoyment of…
In this writing activity, students describe how they are similar to and different from their friends.
