Category: Writing

Help your students deepen their understanding for math while becoming critical thinkers by writing in math. This post explores 11 different ideas for how teachers can bring more writing into their math classrooms beyond just solving equations.

11 Ideas for Bringing Writing into Math

Writing in math is much more than copying down an equation and then solving it. And it’s much more than just answering a quick question

10 Tips to Help Your Students Become Better Writers

We all have students who need to improve their writing skills, whether it’s improving their ideas, grammar, or going all the way back to learning

Ideas for Teaching How to Write a Paragraph

Many students struggle to put together one paragraph, let alone the multi-paragraph essays that common core requires them to do. Since they often lack the

Help your students comprehend poetry with these close reading ideas and steps that are sure to engage and help even your struggling readers of any grade! There are four steps to work through with your students to make poetry accessible and fun. Click through to learn more!

Helping Students Comprehend Poetry

I love poetry. It can be inviting to read, fun to write, and well…interesting to teach. It can especially be a challenge to students who

A child's socioeconomic status highly influences his or her vocabulary attainment, but regardless of that, you should use a variety of ways to increase your students' vocabulary. I share several ideas in this post, and I've included a free chart that you can download, as well!

Increase Students’ Vocabulary

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that vocabulary is extremely important in every classroom, regardless of what grade level or content you teach.

Teaching Elaboration in Writing

When I ask my students to put elaboration into their writing, I usually get more long, drawn-out details of what they did that day. You

Check out this list of ideas to spark an interest in words in your students! Many kids today fall into slang, text talk, video game talk, and other types of language, and they don't seem to have an interest in words and in building their vocabularies. The activities suggested in this post are meant to help spark an interest in words so that students become word collectors and build their vocabularies!

Spark Interest in Words

Too many students today speak a language of slang or video games. Their interest in words – real language – has fallen to the wayside.

Do you have budding scientists in your upper elementary class? This blog post goes into detail on how you can use pictures to create scientists! This is an easy way to bring real-life science into the classroom. Click through to read more and download freebies!

Using Pictures to Create Scientists – With a Freebie!

Not too long ago, Kelly W. told me, “My students will be reading about Albert Einstein, and your pictures remind me of how he looked at

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