4 Tips for Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective Writers
Writing is building, but with words. Showing your students how to write gives them the tools to build a strong foundation. Helping them figure out how to write well is how you help them create castles and skyscrapers and anything else they can imagine. Keeping these...
3 Best Strategies for Teaching Grammar in Elementary School
Even as a young lover of literature, grammar was never my favorite subject. I know most of my students feel exactly the same way. Learning the rules of punctuation and structure can be less appealing to kids than the more obviously creative and fun aspects of writing....
3 Cosmic 1st Grade Writing Prompts About Space
When I was a kid, one of my heroes was Sally Ride. The first American woman in space, she was walking, talking proof that science wasn’t only for men, and that girls like me could touch the stars. While I didn’t grow up to be an astronaut like Ride, she did inspire me...