You and your students have worked hard on writing all year… and now it’s time to make sure it gets all the credit it deserves. Sometimes mandated writing rubrics can have harsh consequences… because sometimes fantastic writing misses the mark when it comes to the rubric. The goal here is to not only to improve [...]
What is the goal of your writing instruction? • Is your instruction geared to helping your students become the next great American novelist? • Is your primary goal to make sure that your students never leave a dangling participle or slit an infinitive? • Do you hope to develop a passion for writing? • Is your goal to help [...]
Be sure to go homepage (or click over on the right) and get your FREE Guide to Writing EBook! Ten Top Reading Comprehension Strategies for Elementary and Middle School Students: 1. Main Idea – Can you figure out what is most important about this paragraph, chapter, or story? Can you see the big picture of what [...]
Are Patterns What You Think They Are? It’s likely that you know a lot more AND a lot less about patterns than you think you do! I was always a bit of a “math geek,” but what I have learned about patterns has opened my eyes to whole new dimensions of the world [...]