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
Click on these links to go to posts individual posts.
Writing Strategies
Writing Skills
- Writing a Thesis Statement
- Ideas to Teach Appositives
- Different Ways to Start Sentences
- Teaching Students about Double Negatives
- How to Eliminate Wordiness
- Writing for an Audience
- Using Transition Words to Improve Writing
- Using Passive and Active Voice
- Three Fun Activities to Help Teach Sequencing
- Comparing Fictional Texts Mini-Lesson
- Author’s Purpose Three Teaching Activities
- Mnemonic Spelling Devices
Capitalization and Punctuation
- Capitalizing Geographical Terms
- When to Use Parentheses, Commas, and Dashes
- Punctuation Task Cards
- Writing Titles of Works
Narrative Writing
- 10 Things to Remember When Writing a Narrative
- When to Start New Paragraphs
- Teaching Students to Write a Narrative ~ Varying Sentences
- Show, Don’t Tell
- Writing a Narrative Hook
Teaching Text Structures
- Text Structures ~ Make Your Own Anchor Chart
- Teaching Problems and Solutions
- Teaching Cause and Effect
- Chronological, Sequential, and Consecutive Order
- Teaching Compare and Contrast
Teaching Text Structures with Songs
- Teaching Compare and Contrast with Songs
- Teaching Sequencing with Songs
- Teaching Cause and Effect with Songs
- Teaching Problems and Solutions with Songs
