4 Delightful May Writing Prompts for Kindergarten Students
May is a beautiful time of year, full of life and full of potential—just like your students. “The world’s favorite season is the spring,” Edwin Way Teale once wrote. “All things seem possible in May.” One wonderful way to celebrate the magic of May in your...
3 Tips for How to Teach Informational Writing to 2nd Graders
Tell your students you’re going to practice “informational writing,” and you’re likely to be greeted with a chorus of yawns. But tell them they’re going to play research detective and go digging up secret knowledge about a topic they love, and nine times out of ten,...
Best Creative Writing Activities to Inspire Your Elementary Students
Growing up, my favorite teachers were the ones whose classrooms I walked out of feeling motivated to do something—usually something creative, like drawing or writing about whatever I’d learned that day. One English teacher in particular inspired me to become the...