by Donna | Nov 19, 2015
Seventh Grade: Teach your student to apply his grammar learning to writing.
While my students often groan when they are told to mark the Checklist Challenge for that week’s homework assignment, they know (and I know) that it really does help. A student just told me this week that her sister had her scan and email her a copy of her Checklist Challenge to use in college—because she had used our CC for every writing project and knew how helpful it can be in revising writing…..
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by Donna | Nov 10, 2015
Sixth Grade: Use good writing models for your student to write from.
Using good writing models for students is an outstanding teaching tool—as long as you do not use given source writing only. Students need to use a model to write from, then write that same type of writing themselves. This week’s tip focuses on how I do that with my students….
by Donna | Nov 10, 2015
Sixth Grade: Use good writing models for your student to write from.
An extremely strong technique for teaching writing in middle school (and even in high school) is that of having students write from a model for the type of writing you are teaching—and then have the student write that same type originally.
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by Donna | Nov 5, 2015
Fifth Grade: Teach students that a paragraph is a unit of thought.
Paragraph division is a difficult concept for students, especially when you don’t teach a paragraph as a unit of thought early on. This week’s tip teaches my strategy for making sure that kids beginning with their very first paragraph understand that a paragraph is a unit of thought.
by Donna | Nov 4, 2015
Fifth Grade: Teach students that a paragraph is a unit of thought.
It is often in third, fourth, or fifth grade that students are expected to write more than one paragraph in a report, essay, or story. This is the point at which students start writing—and have no idea where to divide paragraphs (and sometimes where/when to end the paper!).
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