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1. Better Ways of Using “Said” This is your first newsletter that comes immediately after signing up for your FREE newsletter.
2. Idioms (Part I) – Give your students more than 30 idioms to liven up their writing. Play games and draw funny pictures to help build reading and writing skills.
3. Building Vocabulary With Reading – Students use this worksheet to help identify strong vocabulary and practice putting their new words into their writing and speech.
4. How to Write a Paragraph (Part 1) – Students learn the parts of a paragraph and see models of good paragraphs.
5. How to Write a Paragraph (Part II) – Students learn to write topic and closing sentences and support them with details.
6. How to Write a Paragraph (Part III) – Help students take what they’ve learned to write creative, intelligent paragraphs. Tips for teachers to help students write across the curriculum.
7. The Writing Process – Tips and Tricks for teachers to help students prewrite, rough draft, edit, revise, and publish their work.
8. Theories of Motivation – What does research say about student motivation. Learn three key ideas that will help your students WANT to learn more.
9. Friendly Letters – Can your students name the parts of a friendly letter in five seconds? Can they format a friendly letter with confidence? Now they will.
10. Business Letters – Help your students format business letters with these excellent worksheets.
11. Adverb / Adjective Practice – Are your students having problems with “good” and “well”? Can your students explain why “I can run fast.” is bad grammar? Use these worksheets to help strengthen language skills and your students understanding of adverb and adjective usage.
12. Idioms (Part II) – Give your students more than 30 new idioms to liven up their writing. Play games and draw funny pictures to help build reading and writing skills.
13. Power Vocabulary – Use this strategy to teach and reinforce vocabulary. Research shows that a student needs to hear, and understand, a new word several dozen times to commit it to memory. This quick, easy, and fun strategy helps students commit many new words to memory.
14. Transition Words - Words and phrases that help students make transitions from sentences to sentences and paragraphs to paragraphs.
15. Write Your Own Psalm – For a sixth grade unit on Israel, or for home school parents looking for a creative writing assignment, students follow a classic Hebrew pattern of writing. Get into the mind of an ancient Israelite as understand what motivates their prayers.
16. Writing Tricks – Worksheets to help students write sentences that are more intelligent.
17. Using Journal Time to Practice Writing Skills - Learn tips and tricks for using journal time more effectively.
18. Writing Folders – How to use a writing folder to keep writing techniques fresh in your students’ minds.
19. Adverb / Adjective Practice (Part II) – Are your students having problems with “good” and “well”? Can your students explain why “I can run fast.” is bad grammar? Use these worksheets to help strengthen language skills and your students understanding of adverb and adjective usage.
20. Title vs. Topic Sentence – Have you had any students write a topic sentence like this: “What I like about school.” Even by sixth grade many students are confusing titles with topic sentences. Help students distinguish between the two with these terrific worksheets.
21. Using a Variety of Sentence Structure – This is an advanced editing strategy used to help students realize why using a variety of sentence structure is so important. By the end of this lesson, students will be more mindful about the quality of their sentences.
22. Idioms (Part III) - Give your students more than 30 new idioms to liven up their writing. Play games and draw funny pictures to help build reading and writing skills.
23. Expressive Reading – There is a connection between reading and writing fluency. Meet state standards for reading fluency while strengthening writing fluency. Use this rubric to help students focus their attention on key words and interpret main ideas of text.