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…
ACTIVITIES
This no-prep writing activity packet includes everything you need for introducing and teaching character traits in…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Five elements of a story's plot (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) provide the…
REFERENCE
Kids fill-in autobiographical information in this worksheet to tell others about themselves. Use this worksheet at 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…
Students set goals for themselves for this school year.
Finalize your lessons on how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book The Great Kapok Tree with your class.
Organizing the who, what, where, when, why, and how of an event is the goal of this graphic organizer. This printable is…
A writing workshop is a block of time set aside in the school day to focus exclusively on the writing process.
In this worksheet your students will learn how to write the letter A in cursive. Then they will practice writing words…
Author’s Chair is the final step in the writing process. Read our guide to learn about this strategy, its purpose, and…
Teaching kids how to write can be difficult in the best of circumstances. It can be hard. It can be frustrating. It can…
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…
An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and meanings of individual words, sentences,…
Improve students' writing skills with these 25 ways to motivate young writers.
The story is out of order! Arrange the sentences in the correct sequence.
