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Motivate and engage your students to be the best writers they can be with the tips, resources, and strategies shared in these articles.

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Check out these posts for writing strategies and resources!

  • Wondering how I teach writing in 5th grade? Check out this post!
  • This post shares practical and realistic tips to help teachers get students excited about writing and enjoying it. Must read for writing teachers!
  • Use these printable and digital writing toolkits to help your students through the writing process!
  • Check out this post for writer's workshop procedures for upper elementary grades.
  • Looking for new engaging word work activities for your 4th and 5th graders? These FREE word work activities using Jenga will engage your students as they work with their spelling or word work lists.
  • FREE Word Study Activity for Upper Elementary! Read this post to learn about a word study activity that is perfect for 4th and 5th graders. Free printable to have your students complete the activity also included!

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Personal Word Collector for the Teacher

I am so excited about our spelling program this year. We are using Fountas and Pinnell principles to generate words that follow that principle (with the students' help). But, the best part, we are using the students misspelled words to generate personal word lists. We plan to do a week of principle words and a week of personal words. Here is an example: Week 1: ... Read More

6 Traits Writing Board and Writing Mini-Lesson Checklist

Need a way to remind your students of all the 6 Traits writing strategies you have taught them? This post shares how I organize my writing mini-lessons and how I display them for my students using a dedicated bulletin board. To help you come up with mini-lessons, I also include the writing checklist I use for free. All About the 6 Traits Writing Board For the past two ... Read More

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