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Would you like to provide your students with an easy way to edit and revise their writing?  How about a visual reminder of what good writing...

Are you looking for some interdisciplinary end of year review activities involving writing and Virginia Studies?  Then this Virginia Studies...

In my teaching and personal experience, I find the first sentence of a piece of writing to be one of the most difficult things to create and...

Even though I am a 7th Grade Science teacher, I occasionally get to help out in other classrooms and subjects. The other day, I got to plan ...

Our district requires us to celebrate Constitution Day and do activities related to it.  I actually enjoy it.  For one thing, The Constituti...

I have always used author's purpose (PIE) when teaching reading and writing. We talk about the "slices of pie" (persuade, info...

At the end of each school year, I have the students write a letter summarizing their experiences.  I put them out on the desks for next year...

I love haikus.  They're one of my most favorite forms of poetry.  They're also like a shot in the arm for our waning excitement for ...

For our upcoming writing unit on Veteran's Day, we read some great mentor texts to collect character traits for our nation's heroes....

Anytime I can get the kids writing and enjoying it, I feel a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.  I have found that kids really like writing abou...

We've been researching the contributions of Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, and Thomas Edison to electricity.  We started with some ...

I've already taught the majority of what I plan to teach for figurative language through my poetry unit.  This year, I plan to do things...

The state writing predictor test is almost upon us.  With that in mind, I happened upon this post at Two Writing Teachers blog.   They do wh...

I made some posters to display during writing time because my students seem to zip through the editing/revising stage of writing without giv...

This is one of the hardest concepts for my students to "get."  We've talked about using adjectives and adverbs instead of maki...

Some of the hardest parts of the writing process for my students are editing and revising.  They often confuse what each of those steps enta...

Well, our fourth grade writing predictor test is coming up, and this is a tough one for most fourth graders.  It tells who is ready for the ...