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Whether your student is reluctant or brimming with excitement, you’ll find solid, proven ideas here that will make your teaching life easier. And take advantage of the many writing prompts and tutorials posted here.
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Thanksgiving Prompts—Good for the Soul
We want our students and our children to develop attitudes of gratefulness, to say thank you without being prompted, and to appreciate any worldly goods and advantages they have.
Use these four Thanksgiving prompts to get them thinking about their blessings and how they can bless others. (more…)
Intro to Writing, Parts 1 and 2
Intro to Writing
Do your students get stuck when they have to write a paragraph or an essay?
I have a secret I’d like to share with you.
Your students do not have to write a paragraph or a whole essay every time they put pencil to paper. One of the best ways to unplug the fear of writing is to do some of the prepare-for-writing tasks but never write the whole paragraph or essay.
It’s called practice, as when members of a basketball team practice dribbling or passing. The team does not play a game every time they get together. They practice pieces of the game.
So let’s practice brainstorming and organizing ideas. (more…)
How to Create a Paragraph: Middle School Chart
Solid Help for Writing a Paragraph
Do you have trouble coming up with ideas to put in your paragraphs?
Would you like help organizing each paragraph so it is not a jumbled mess?
Check out this chart below, along with one that is filled in, to make your life a little easier.
3 Prompts to Celebrate the Olympics
Celebrate the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics with us. Here are three prompts and one BONUS prompt for your 5th-12th graders to enjoy as the festivities get underway! Some are light and fun. Others involve controversies and get your students thinking. Be sure to download the colorful worksheet in #1.
On your mark . . . get set . . .
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1. Let’s Pack
You’re packing to go to Paris, France, for the 2024 Summer Olympics, but you can pack only 26 things. It’s a good thing there are 26 letters in the alphabet because you are going to pack one item for every letter in it. What will you pack that begins with “A”? With “B”? With “Z”???
