FUN-SIZE ACADEMIC WRITING FOR SERIOUS LEARNING
101 Lessons & Mentor Texts--Narrative, Opinion/Argument, & Informative/Explanatory
Sometimes a student’s best teacher is another student. Using student mentor texts, students try out author’s craft in their own writing. Deepening understanding, they will also learn to read as writers and write for readers.
- Text Structures and Kernel Essays
- Building a Writer’s Toolbox with Icons
- Color-it-up
- PitchforkingResponding to Literature
- Fun-Size Alignment Documents
GRAMMAR KEEPERS
Lessons That Tackle Students’ Most Persistent Problems Once and for All
In this session, teachers will discover that mastery of grammar concepts develops naturally when students use their own journal writing as a launching point. Students will learn grammar, spelling, and usage skills easily by practicing and proving them daily without ever using a worksheet.
- Using Star Points and Tracking Charts
1. How and why to use journals
2. Their/there/they're and other confused words
- etc.