As students move into upper elementary grades, they start working on text-based writing (or text-dependent analysis). Students transition from writing fun stories in the lower elementary grades to composing informational writing pieces with text evidence in the upper elementary grades. If you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade, then you know that guiding our students…
Writing
How to Set up a Writing Corner in your Classroom
Let me tell you what I want most for my students as writers. I want them to love writing. Pretty simple, right? I also want them to be excited to jot their words down on paper. I want them to know that their stories and opinions matter and deserve to be shared. A few years…
Teaching the Four Types of Sentences
Teaching the four types of sentences is a key component in developing young writers. If you’re working with lower elementary students, you might be reviewing command, statement, exclamation, and question. Upper elementary students might be diving into the fancier terms: interrogative, declarative, exclamatory, imperative. Regardless of which wording you choose to review, having students understand…
