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Grading Snippets: Written Feedback for Middle School Students

Grading Snippets: Written Feedback for Middle School Students

Written feedback for students, especially middle schoolers, is a lot easier with grading snippets. These helpful comments, gathered into a convenient spreadsheet, make assessments of student writing faster and still personalized. To get a free spreadsheet of grading...
Digital Activities for Collections Grade 6

Digital Activities for Collections Grade 6

Digital Activities for Collections are a great way to help 6th-grade students understand rigorous text selections while also engaging them with colorful, interactive learning.  Buy Digital Activities for Collections Grade 6 HERE   Digital Activities for...
Beginning of Year Writing Assignment

Beginning of Year Writing Assignment

My first beginning of year writing assignment in our writer’s workshop is something I have been doing for 23-24 years now. When I was a new teacher, I found it while searching for classroom icebreakers. I wish I knew who posted about it, so I can give him/her...
Stop the Cycle of Perfectionism Procrastination

Stop the Cycle of Perfectionism Procrastination

Stop the Cycle of Perfectionism and Procrastination! Writing is one of the most difficult, and yet most important subjects to teach. Now, I realize reading is equally important. Yet, I have found that teaching students to express themselves through writing often gets...
3 Teacher Tips for Writing Informational Text

3 Teacher Tips for Writing Informational Text

These three teacher tips for writing informational text will keep you from without wanting to pull your hair out. I’ve spent many planning periods and Sunday evenings, grading student writing, wondering how to help my students. Didn’t their elementary...
Drawing to Write can break writer’s block

Drawing to Write can break writer’s block

Drawing to write is a writing strategy can break writer’s block.  I use this strategy all the time when I need to visualize a setting or character and for quite a few other reasons, too.   What do I mean by drawing to write? I am not an artist. Although, I...