Text features vs text structures: how to introduce text structures to your students. Middle school students really need to learn how to use text structures for both reading and writing so that’s what I’m going to talk about in this blog post. Text Features...
Nurture a growth mindset in your classroom and watch your students bloom! A growth mindset helps students to grapple with difficult texts, frustrations with writing about difficult topics, and give and receive feedback without feeling personally attacked. In this blog...
Writing strategies for middle school students that help them break through writer’s block – your middle schoolers can use these strategies for the rest of the school year and, quite frankly, for the rest of their lives. Why I teach writing strategies to my...
Writing Response Paragraphs for Literature Writing response paragraphs for literature is the solution to a problem I had with my middle school writers. My middle school writers didn’t know how to analyze specifically for questions asked about literature. The rigorous...
Back to School 2022 by Kristen Nall – this guest post is from a new teacher friend I met through this Teach2Write website. After Kristen reached out to me via email and told me about these back to school activities, I asked Kristen if she would be interested in...
How to teach descriptive writing when students don’t understand “show, don’t tell” is probably one of the hardest things for students to grasp, but these 3 small things can improve their “meh” writing in BIG ways. Also, it only...
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