Motivating Your Students to Write: Top 3 Teaching Strategies
Soon, Studentreasures will be celebrating an incredible achievement—14 million young authors published in just over two decades! To help even one student publish their work and get their writing out in the world is worthwhile; to know that millions of kids around the...
5 Inspiring Spring Story Starters for 1st Grade
Springtime is perfect for children. This beautiful time of year is all about growth and new beginnings, the perfect setting in which to help your 1st grade students find writing inspiration. Of course, just as a baby chick has to break through its tough shell in...
6 Historical Story Starters for Elementary Students
I’ve always found that the key to teaching history to elementary students is to tell it less like a textbook and more like a story. Put faces to names. Paint mental pictures to accompany those long-lost times and places. Don’t just ask your kids to memorize—encourage...