During summer break, elementary school students often experience a decline in writing skills, leading to a "summer slide." To address this, teachers can do three big things to motivate students to write again.
Category: stamina
Spot the Difference–Accommodation or Modification: Reflective Practice
How do you create accessibility for writers in the classroom? Today, I'm reflecting on shifting between accommodations and modifications to meet students where they are.
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Live Cam Writing Exercise: Ready-to-Go-Tip
Here's a ready-to-use Hyperdoc with links to live cams for a fun writing exercise you could try today!
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Writing Cheerleader: A Ready-To-Go Tip
Today’s post from Terje Äkke invites you to think about an inner writing cheerleader and offers a way to play with this idea with young writers.
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Writing Stamina: From the Archives
Writing stamina has been a topic our co-author team has tackled for many years. Explore posts from the archives that span ages, strategies, and tools.
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Building Writing Stamina Outside the Workshop
Low writing stamina is frustrating for teachers and students alike. Help build students' writing stamina with more opportunities to write outside of writing workshop.
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Stamina Seekers: Save a Seat for Every Writer
Building stamina as a writer takes practice and patience. With the right tools, teachers can provide an environment where students who seek stamina can thrive.
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Discover What Writers REALLY Need By Kidwatching
Anytime we pay careful attention and take non-judgemental notes about how students are learning what to do as writers, we gain valuable insight on how to better instruct them.
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Family Resources for At-Home Learning: Reflections and Shifts As We Move Forward
This post is a look back at the resources I created to support families with at-home learning throughout the pandemic, and some ideas for supporting families in the future.
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Developing Stamina: Meet Writers Where They Are
When we think of stamina, whether with exercise or writing, we might be tempted to think only of the moment - the moment of doing jumping jacks or moving the pencil across the paper. Yet, so much more goes into getting to that moment and then staying in that moment. Stay with me, as I compare trying to build up my stamina for daily movement to students growing in their stamina for writing.
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Resources Teachers Can Share With Families: Increase Writing Volume and Stamina at Home
Teaching my own kids is humbling to say the least. At home, I am not the special visiting teacher. I'm not even the teacher. At home, I'm mom, and it is the understatement of the century to say that it is a challenge to teach my own kids.
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“Just-Keep-Swimming” Spelling Strategies
Just like Dory, in the movie Finding Nemo, young writers can easily lose their way and forget where they were headed, especially if they stop for too long and lose their momentum.
