Category: Writing

How to Get Students Excited about Writing - Reading and Writing Redhead

5 Ways to Get Your Students Excited About Writing

CREATIVE TOPICS Fun and creative topics get children much more excited about writing more than just the standard prompt “What did you do this weekend?” There is no better way to stop students’ creativity than drop that one on a class, right? Let’s check out some examples. In the Fall

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Management Tips for Interactive Notebooks

Hey teachers!! Are you using Interactive Notebooks or planning to? I used them for years with my second graders so I definitely developed some management tricks for interactive notebooks over time. Here are some tips for you! (and if you’re wondering why you should try INBs check out my blog post here

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How do Interactive Notebooks Keep Students Engaged?

How Interactive Notebooks Keep Students Engaged     INTERACTIVE It’s in the title! They are interactive and kids are not just reading and checking things off or writing a one word answer. Let’s peek at an example. Here in this activity for types of sentences, students cut out the flap

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Teaching SEL During the Pandemic

Things in our world are certainly stressful, aren’t they? And many of us are going to focus on teaching SEL during the pandemic. our students (and us teachers) need social emotional learning  more than ever. I decided to use this space today to talk about some tools, resources, and ideas

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St. Patrick’s Day Activities and Ideas

 It’s time to bring some St. Patrick’s Day activities and ideas into your classroom since it’s right  around the corner. You can even pin this blog post and save it for this time next year! Leprechaun Paper Plate Mask Grab this fun and easy to make mask from Simply Today

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Tips for Teaching Writing

Isn’t teaching writing so tough? Personally, I always find it the most challenging subject to teach. I have been to professional development and found resources with online videos and books that helped me, so I wanted to share with you! Texts for Students and Teachers First, I highly recommend helping

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Helping Students Learn to Edit their Writing

Let’s Help Your Students Learn to Edit their Writing So, you want your students to be able to edit their own work? Find capitalization and punctuation errors and fix them before they turn in their assignments? I have taught second grade for 21 years and every fall, when I get

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