Teaching punctuation doesn't have to be boring or take a ton of instructional time. These fun activities are easy to prepare and teach students how to effectively use punctuation marks in their writing.
This blog post gathers ideas and lesson plans that show how to teach revising and editing. It also gives lots of revising and editing practice ideas.
Teaching writing DOESN'T have to be complicated! With these simple strategies, you can improve students' writing without having to work so hard.
6 easy steps to help kid writers come up with interesting ideas and write stories confidently in K-3.
Teaching writing conventions (generally accepted standards for written English and grammar) will help your kids' writing look its best.
I was inspired by this pin on pinterest: So I made this for my jungle themed classroom: Love! If I do say so myself! I used a...
Teaching writing DOESN'T have to be complicated! With these simple strategies, you can improve students' writing without having to work so hard.
6 easy steps to help kid writers come up with interesting ideas and write stories confidently in K-3.
Build confident and independent writers in the classroom with Writing Mats. This resource provides writing prompts for kids, picture-word lists, writing conventions checklist, and sentence starters!
Get these free sentence building activities for your students. This DIFFERENTIATED writing center will help students practice writing conventions and build reading fluency skills.
So embarking on this new grade, I didn't imagine quite fully all the new material I would be teaching. Dialogue in writing and how to punctuate it - certainly wasn't something I was expecting. I fo
In today's post, I'm going to share some practical tips to help you integrate grammar instruction into your writing workshop!
6 easy steps to help kid writers come up with interesting ideas and write stories confidently in K-3.
Proof Reading and Editing Checklist For Kids - a free template to download so kids can take a step by step approach to proof reading their work.
Build confident and independent writers in the classroom with Writing Mats. This resource provides writing prompts for kids, picture-word lists, writing conventions checklist, and sentence starters!
Email Etiquette is an important skill for students to master, and these email writing lessons, activities, and assignments will teach your students everything they need to know about how to write an email! Students will learn everything they need to know about the common email conventions, email mechanics, the parts of a professional email, and much more. Beyond obtaining a wealth of practical tips for writing emails that sound professional and that serve a direct purpose, students will also complete a variety of fun email etiquette activities that will help them to hone their skills before practicing writing an email of their own. This substantial email writing resource provides everything you need to teach email etiquette in your classroom. What's included in this Email Etiquette resource: ➡️ Email Etiquette Slideshow Lesson: This 38-slide presentation will guide you through all elements of the lesson to teach students how to write an email. The presentation includes discussion questions, tips for how to write an email, email mechanics, the main parts of a professional email, and much much more ➡️ Email Etiquette Student Reference: This handout summarizes the content from the presentation for students and explains what email etiquette is and why it is essential. It also breaks down the four parts of an email with a detailed example. ➡️ Email Writing Tips Reference: This email etiquette handout explains 10 practical tips for how to write an emails that are appropriate, professional, and effective. ➡️ Email Sorting Activity: For this activity, students will be given task cards with sample sentences from emails, and they will need to categorize them according to whether they are “ready to send” or “not ready to send” to reveal two mystery words. ➡️ Email Etiquette Edit Activity: Students will be given a draft of an email that they will need to edit using what they have learned from the lesson. ➡️ Email Analysis Activity: Students will circulate to different stations in a small groups and read various emails on task cards. They will jot down their thoughts on improving each email using provided graphic organizers. ➡️ Email Etiquette Rewrite: Students will rewrite a sample email to a teacher that is not yet ready to be sent for a variety of reasons using their knowledge of proper email etiquette. ➡️ Email Writing Checklist: This convenient checklist will help students with checking their own emails for errors and help them improve their email etiquette and professionalism. ➡️ Writing an Email Final Assignment: Students will use the email topic prompt task cards to write an email of their own to their teacher, applying all the skills they have learned from the lesson. What teachers are saying about this email etiquette resource: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students definitely need assistance with writing appropriate emails. This is such an important life skill. Thank you for creating this engaging resource! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a great resource for my Learners to use to practice writing emails. It will greatly improve their reading and writing language proficiencies and give them practice with a real world skill. Thank you! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Our provincial testing shifted from having ELA 9 students write business letters to having them write business emails. This resource helped clarify digital technology for students who are used to using text speak and emojis and helped them develop the skills needed for their exam in May. If you like this, you might also like this other resource from Presto Plans: Showing vs. Telling Writing Strategy © Presto Plans ➡️ Want 10 free ELA resources sent to your inbox? Click here! ⭐️ Follow Presto Plans on TpT to see what's new and on sale.
Greetings friends! I created this 5 Star Writing page for my students as a self accountability piece. Each morning after completing our mo...
Check out these strong narrative writing anchor charts. From introductions to conclusions, these 6 anchor charts will engage your students.
What if I told you moving your ENTIRE writing instruction to small group instruction will turn your students into INCREDIBLE writers? Well, I’m telling you that. I moved from teaching writing whole group with writing conferences on the side to GUIDED WRITING. It was a game changer. Let’s start from the beginning. All of your […]
