by Studentreasures | Dec. 18, 2018 | Writing Skill-Building Activity
Some students may not have a clear understanding of family traditions, especially at a young age. Help your students appreciate their unique traditions by giving them creative writing activities that talk about the traditions they currently have or ones they would...
by Studentreasures | Dec. 6, 2018 | Student Publishing
Although teaching poetry to elementary students may be challenging at first, poetry is a lot of fun once they get the hang of it. It’s like dancing with words instead of feet. It can be lyrical or loose and free, a joyous foxtrot or a melancholy minuet. And, like...
by Studentreasures | Dec. 4, 2018 | Teaching Strategies
While not everyone grows up to be the next Charles Dickens or S. E. Hinton, everyone has a story or two to tell. As Robin Moore once wrote, “Inside each of us is a natural-born storyteller, waiting to be released.” The key to unleashing your elementary students’...
by Studentreasures | Nov. 30, 2018 | Classroom Activities
What began as a simple folktale about a gingerbread cookie come alive soon took on a life of its own after being published in print for the first time in 1875. Since then, the tale of “The Gingerbread Man” (originally titled “The Gingerbread Boy”)has been told time...
by Studentreasures | Nov. 28, 2018 | Classroom Activities
One winter holiday that simply doesn’t get the attention it deserves is National Letter Writing Day on December 7th. In today’s world of smartphones, webcams and instant messaging, it’s true that handwritten letters have been on the decline. Yet letter writing has...
