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You have most likely spent a lot of time thinking about your writing instruction. You may have been told exactly how many minutes of writing time you get each day or encouraged to get students writing as quickly (and as long) as possible to start preparing them for the rigorous expectations of the district or state assessments. But what about teaching grammar and language skills?

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Revising and Editing Chart: ARMS & CUPS I used this one when I taught...it worked and the students understood it.

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This easy end of year writing craftivity is a great writing activity as your students start looking toward summer. Perfect for bulletin boards, students write letters with advice about your classroom to help next year.

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Teaching personal narratives in elementary school can be tough and students sometimes struggle to understand the process. I love using the watermelon and seed analogy when teaching students about small moments and personal narratives. Use small moments to build strong personal narratives with these printable writing prompts and graphic organizers. See everything included in this set and grab yours for 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students today! Writing Lesson Plans, Writing Lessons, Teaching Writing, Student Teaching, Writing Activities, Writing Skills, Personal Narrative Writing Prompts, Printable Writing Prompts, Personal Narratives

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Teaching personal narratives in elementary school can be tough and students sometimes struggle to understand the process. I love using the watermelon and seed analogy when teaching students about small moments and personal narratives. Check out this blog post that focuses on tips and strategies for teaching personal narratives and on how to get students to focus on small moments. Don’t forget to grab the free personal narrative organizers that will help you and your students get started! Elementary Writing Activities, Upper Elementary Resources, Teaching Tips, Elementary Schools, Personal Narrative Writing

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Personal Narrative Writing

Teaching personal narratives in elementary school can be tough and students sometimes struggle to understand the process. I love using the watermelon and seed analogy when teaching students about small moments and personal narratives. Check out this blog post that focuses on tips and strategies for teaching personal narratives and on how to get students to focus on small moments. Don’t forget to grab the free personal narrative organizers that will help you and your students get started!

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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September Writing Prompts - No Prep Daily Quick Write Journal Activities

Teaching personal narratives in elementary school can be tough and students sometimes struggle to understand the process. I love using the watermelon and seed analogy when teaching students about small moments and personal narratives. Check out this blog post that focuses on tips and strategies for teaching personal narratives and on how to get students to focus on small moments. Don’t forget to grab the free personal narrative organizers that will help you and your students get started! Student Writing, Descriptive Writing

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Teaching personal narratives in elementary school can be tough and students sometimes struggle to understand the process. I love using the watermelon and seed analogy when teaching students about small moments and personal narratives. Check out this blog post that focuses on tips and strategies for teaching personal narratives and on how to get students to focus on small moments. Don’t forget to grab the free personal narrative organizers that will help you and your students get started!

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Writing Lesson Plans & Ideas

Ready to practice important grammar, vocabulary, and editing skills in fifth grade? Packed with 36 weeks of daily language arts practice, this 5th grade language spiral review is a great way to deepen mastery and practice concepts like word analysis, editing, parts of speech, figurative language, & more! Learn more about the topics and everything included with these fifth grade language arts activities so you can grab yours today! Writing Instruction, Language Art Activities, Language Resources, Language Arts, 5th Grade Ela, Fifth Grade

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Ready to practice important grammar, vocabulary, and editing skills in fifth grade? Packed with 36 weeks of daily language arts practice, this 5th grade language spiral review is a great way to deepen mastery and practice concepts like word analysis, editing, parts of speech, figurative language, & more! Learn more about the topics and everything included with these fifth grade language arts activities so you can grab yours today!

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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Looking for a way to practice important grammar, vocabulary, and editing skills in fourth grade? Packed with 180 days of language arts practice, this daily 4th grade language spiral review is a great way to deepen mastery and practice concepts like parts of speech, figurative language, & more! Learn more about the topics and everything included with these fourth grade language arts activities so you can grab yours today! Language Arts Resources, Combining Sentences, Dictionary Skills, Sentence Construction

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Looking for a way to practice important grammar, vocabulary, and editing skills in fourth grade? Packed with 180 days of language arts practice, this daily 4th grade language spiral review is a great way to deepen mastery and practice concepts like parts of speech, figurative language, & more! Learn more about the topics and everything included with these fourth grade language arts activities so you can grab yours today!

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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Create a great keepsake for Father's Day using this easy, no-prep Father's Day craft! This Father's Day activity includes a short response writing activity and is great for students in 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade. This June celebrate with these fathers day crafts and hang them in your hallway before sending them home! Father's Day Activities, Daily Math, Writing Crafts, Worlds Best Dad

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Create a great keepsake for Father's Day using this easy, no-prep Father's Day craft! This Father's Day activity includes a short response writing activity and is great for students in 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade. This June celebrate with these fathers day crafts and hang them in your hallway before sending them home!

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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7 Interactive Language Arts Activities for Digital Classrooms ELA Games to Play with Your Students Online. Whether you are back to school or teaching your students online, it's a perfect time to provide extension and fun with #ELAgames to play with your students online. Language Arts Games, Language Arts Elementary, Language Arts Lessons, Classroom Language, Language Teaching, Ela Games, Vocabulary Games, Online Learning Games

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7 Interactive Language Arts Activities for Digital Classrooms ELA Games to Play with Your Students Online. Whether you are back to school or teaching your students online, it's a perfect time to provide extension and fun with #ELAgames to play with your students online.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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Want to see how your elementary students think the Thanksgiving turkey gets prepared? This Thanksgiving writing activity is an engaging way to make the writing process fun while celebrating Thanksgiving in your second, third, fourth, or fifth grade classroom. Perfect for small groups, writing centers, or independent work, your elementary students will enjoy this simple, interactive Thanksgiving writing prompt! Science Writing, Writing Process, November Teaching Ideas, Autumn Teaching Ideas

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Want to see how your elementary students think the Thanksgiving turkey gets prepared? This Thanksgiving writing activity is an engaging way to make the writing process fun while celebrating Thanksgiving in your second, third, fourth, or fifth grade classroom. Perfect for small groups, writing centers, or independent work, your elementary students will enjoy this simple, interactive Thanksgiving writing prompt!

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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This easy end of year writing craftivity is a great writing activity as your students start looking toward summer. Perfect for bulletin boards, students write letters with advice about your classroom to help next year.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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This easy, no-prep Back-to-School banner craft is perfect for the new school year. Students write a short response about something fun they did over summer break and you can create a fun and colorful bulletin board display. School Goals, School Fun, School Year, Colorful Bulletin Boards, Back To School Bulletin Boards, Writing Prompts, Back To School Worksheets

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This easy, no-prep Back-to-School banner craft is perfect for the new school year. Students write a short response about something fun they did over summer break and you can create a fun and colorful bulletin board display.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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Find out why writing stamina is important and learn easy ways teachers can build writing stamina with your reluctant or struggling writers. Get ideas and activities that will help your students get creative and start building up their writing tolerance. Perfect strategies for Tier 1 writing interventions and great for helping meet Common Core standards in writing. Be sure to download the free writing prompts! #writing #writingstamina #teachingwriting #strugglingwriters #reluctantwriters

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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I really like to introduce this project by discussing the upcoming Mother's Day holiday. Depending on my group and whether we've wrapped up our prep for state testing, I like to start out by reading a short passage about the history of the holiday and answering some questions. Activities For Kids, Short Passage, Student Created

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I really like to introduce this project by discussing the upcoming Mother's Day holiday. Depending on my group and whether we've wrapped up our prep for state testing, I like to start out by reading a short passage about the history of the holiday and answering some questions.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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The project takes the entire three weeks to complete. There are a number of steps the students work through in order to create their poetry book including research and notetaking, drafting, revising, and publishing. Writing Poetry, Poetry Books, Student Work, Holiday Poetry

The project takes the entire three weeks to complete. There are a number of steps the students work through in order to create their poetry book including research and notetaking, drafting, revising, and publishing.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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Mother's Day Activities

Finding simple ways to help my students create a meaningful gift for their mom (or mother-figures) is something that is always on my mind in May. With state testing and so many other things to wrap up, this is already a busy time. Over the years I've become pretty well-equipped to find ways to blend our curriculum with ways to help students make something they are proud of. That's where this Mother's Day writing craft comes in.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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A composition book can be great for keeping things neatly organized because pages are bound together tightly. They can also be easily cut in half to make them more approachable to younger learners. Below is an example of a writer's notebook from my classroom a few years ago. Our campus used Lucy Calkin's Units of Study for writing. Early in the year, we introduced her idea of seed writing, cutting apart watermelon to help us visualize.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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This Mother's Day writing resource includes both a time-saving print & go format and a cut & paste option for more flexibility with young writers so you'll have some options when deciding what will work best for your learners. Young Writers

This Mother's Day writing resource includes both a time-saving print & go format and a cut & paste option for more flexibility with young writers so you'll have some options when deciding what will work best for your learners.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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Essay Writing Tips

This graphic organizer helps students move from understanding the concept of a small moment to applying it to their own experiences. Students can generate writing ideas or use ideas they may have written in their writing journal earlier in the year. They then break these down to identify three small moments that they could write a personal narrative about.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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The thought of grammar lessons can send some children into a deep sleep. It can be an incredibly dull subject if taught using uninventive methods and resources. However, with creativity and a bit of thought, punctuation for 8 to 11-year-olds can certainly become more exciting. Here are five suggestions that you could incorporate easily.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Writing Lesson Plans & Ideas

"There is so little time for students to work on handwriting these days, and when students struggle we need quick and easy ways to intervene. These free and low-cost handwriting apps for upper elementary students will help build essential handwriting skills without taking a ton of time." Handwriting App, Handwriting Practice, Teaching Time, Upper Elementary

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"There is so little time for students to work on handwriting these days, and when students struggle we need quick and easy ways to intervene. These free and low-cost handwriting apps for upper elementary students will help build essential handwriting skills without taking a ton of time."

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Writing Lesson Plans & Ideas

A composition book can be great for keeping things neatly organized because pages are bound together tightly. They can also be easily cut in half to make them more approachable to younger learners.

A composition book can be great for keeping things neatly organized because pages are bound together tightly. They can also be easily cut in half to make them more approachable to younger learners.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Writing Lesson Plans & Ideas

Now that we've got that out of the way, I want to get to the meat of this article. Why should we be teaching cursive to our students? There is a growing body of research that supports cursive's superiority to print in terms of how the brain processes. There's also the real-world experiences from the classroom. Today I want to share a bit of both to help you get a better understanding of why you should be teaching cursive in your classroom. Teaching Cursive Writing, Student Engagement, Online School, Educational Activities, Punctuation, Terms

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Now that we've got that out of the way, I want to get to the meat of this article. Why should we be teaching cursive to our students? There is a growing body of research that supports cursive's superiority to print in terms of how the brain processes. There's also the real-world experiences from the classroom. Today I want to share a bit of both to help you get a better understanding of why you should be teaching cursive in your classroom.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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"Teaching students how to write personal narratives can be challenging. Get strategies for helping them focus their stories on a small moment, identify sensory details, and draft a strong cohesive draft. Plus grab freebies to make the process a snap."

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

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Finally, we do a sample after spring break. Again the students follow the steps of the process and come to get final draft paper from me when they are ready. I do not edit or revise any of the three samples with them because my goal is to get a true idea of where they are. These are always done and available at the spring conference. Free Lesson Plans, In Writing

Free Lesson Plans

Finally, we do a sample after spring break. Again the students follow the steps of the process and come to get final draft paper from me when they are ready. I do not edit or revise any of the three samples with them because my goal is to get a true idea of where they are. These are always done and available at the spring conference.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Writing Lesson Plans & Ideas

Monitoring students writing progress can be challenging because each genre has its own characteristics and requires a different format. Find out how you can screen your students writing by collecting writing samples during the school year, and get free lesson plan outline to get you started. Lesson Plan Outline, Formative Assessment Tools, Writing Portfolio

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Monitoring students writing progress can be challenging because each genre has its own characteristics and requires a different format. Find out how you can screen your students writing by collecting writing samples during the school year, and get free lesson plan outline to get you started.

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Rebecca Davies | Differentiated Teaching

Writing Lesson Plans & Ideas