Beginning, middle, and ending is so important in teaching kids to write that I created an acronym for it: BME. Clearly, I’m not trying to be creative with that acronym. I just use the term so often that I need an acronym for it. Over the centuries, humans have come up...
Teaching writing is easy, right? Just turn the page in the textbook or workbook. If only it were that simple! Most teachers think that teaching writing is hard, and if they don’t think that, then they strongly believe that teaching writing is an art. This situation...
Do you want to improve your students’ writing? Well, don’t teach grammar. I’m serious. Teaching grammar does not improve student writing. I will never forget the year that I devoted an unreasonable amount of class time to teaching grammar with the hope that students...
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