Tips for Teaching Narrative Writing Structure and Style to Elementary Students
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’...
1st Grade Gingerbread Man Writing Activities to Celebrate the Holidays
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...
2 National Letter Writing Day Activities for 2nd Grade
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...