Writing

Writing Blog Posts

Get ideas to teach upper elementary students writing and free teaching material to aid with your lessons.

Check out these posts on writing strategies. Find resources to help to teach writing skills including capitalization and punctuation. This group of blog posts contains several series including:

  • Narratives
  • Teaching Text Structures with Songs
  • Teaching Persuasive Techniques with Commercials
  • Parts of Speech

Recent Writing Posts

Verbs

Parts of Speech ~ Verbs

Conjunctions

Parts of Speech ~ Teaching Conjunctions

Pronouns

Parts of Speech ~ Pronouns

Adjectives

Parts of Speech ~ Adjectives

Nouns

Parts of Speech ~ Nouns

Interjections

Activities for Teaching Interjections

Reading Graphic Organizers

Reading Graphic Organizers

Bandwagon Persuasive Technique

Teaching the Persuasive Technique – Bandwagon

For even more great ideas, check out the writing post archives by topics.

Writing Strategies

April Fools’ Day Writing Project

Writing Prompts for Upper Elementary

Inverted Pyramid Story

RAFT Writing Strategy

Capitalization and Punctuation

When to Use Parentheses, Commas, and Dashes

Capitalizing Geographical Terms

Teaching Comma Rules

Capitalizing Titles

Narrative Writing

Retell, Recount, and Summarize

Teaching Students about Varying Sentences

When to Start a New Paragraph in a Story

10 Things to Remember When Writing a Narrative

Teaching Students to Write Narrative Hooks

Show, Don’t Tell

Teaching Text Structures

Teaching Problems and Solutions

Teaching Compare and Contrast

Text Structures ~ Make Your Own Anchor Chart

Three Fun Activities to Help Teach Sequencing

Teaching Cause and Effect

Chronological, Sequential, and Consecutive Order

Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech ~ Verbs

Parts of Speech ~ Teaching Conjunctions

Parts of Speech ~ Pronouns

Parts of Speech ~ Adjectives

Parts of Speech ~ Nouns

Activities for Teaching Interjections

Parts of Speech ~ Adverbs

Parts of Speech ~ Prepositions

Writing Skills

Reading Graphic Organizers

10 Christmas Compare and Contrast Writing Prompts

Teaching Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Teaching Writer’s Voice

Writing Hooks for Informative Writing

Teaching Formal vs Informal Language

Writing a Thesis Statement

Writing for an Audience

Using Transition Words to Improve Writing

How to Eliminate Wordiness

Teaching Students about Double Negatives

Different Ways to Start Sentences

Using Passive and Active Voice

Ideas to Teach Appositives

Comparing Fictional Texts Mini Lesson

Mnemonic Spelling Devices

Author’s Purpose Three Teaching Activities

Teaching Text Structures with Songs

Teaching Problems and Solutions with Songs

Teaching Cause and Effect with Songs

Teaching Sequencing with Songs

Teaching Compare and Contrast with Songs

Teaching Persuasive Techniques with Commericials

Teaching the Persuasive Technique – Bandwagon

Name-Calling Persuasive Technique

Loaded Terms Persuasive Technique

Testimonial Persuasive Technique

Gay Miller

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