Helping Teachers Get Their Lives Back
When I taught elementary grades and even middle school, as part of our morning work, students would write in their journals, whether answering a question on the board or completing a writing prompt I had given. Let’s dive deeper into Make Writing Fun: Creative Daily Journal Writing Prompts and discover how a few minutes of… Continue reading Make Writing Fun: Creative Daily Journal Writing Prompts
There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey, a pumpkin, some snow…you name it, she has eaten it all. Students love to read these books, I believe, in part due to the playful rhymes and whimsical storytelling, but also for the silliness of an old woman eating so many things. For them, it’s shockingly… Continue reading There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey: Writing Cumulative Tales with Canva
Reading to Learn is when students have become fluent enough readers and can take in information they’ve read at a steady pace. This ability quickly leads them to be able to comprehend knowledge and obtain new concepts. Students move to Reading to Learn when they are not focusing on the process of sounding out words… Continue reading Writing to Learn in the Classroom
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