Tag: 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

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

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

There's a constant push on teachers to create interdisciplinary lessons, especially in order to cover more academic standards. This post shares five ways to integrate writing into your science class, so click through to read all of the ideas!

5 Ideas on How to Integrate Writing into Science

If your classroom is like mine, then you have very few minutes in the day. I have occasionally joked about having to follow my kids

This engaging writing activity is a fun way to teach dictionary skills and reference skills while incorporating creative writing! Check out this easy and engaging writing idea!

Dictionary Writing Activity Fun!

Are you looking for an engaging writing activity for your kiddos? Try making them create their own dictionary entry! When we were studying the dictionary