Before You Go…
It’s that time of year when we start to think about all the things we didn’t get to do with our students! Here are five writing exercises I am going to make sure students don’t leave without!
The Cupcake Metaphor
Find out what sprinkled cupcakes and figurative language instruction have to do each other!
Writing About Historic Events, People, or Places
Pennsylvania-based author Linda Oatman High led a session entitled “Writing to the Beat of a Different Drummer” at the KSRA Conference I attended this week. (My handwritten notes from her … Continue Reading Writing About Historic Events, People, or Places
Teaching Figurative Language with Mentor Poems
I was conferring with one of my students in Writing Workshop yesterday and quickly found, as I researched, my compliment (meaningful line breaks while drafting) and teaching point (using figurative … Continue Reading Teaching Figurative Language with Mentor Poems
TWO WRITING TEACHERS 