This year, I decided to spend some extra time with procedural text. How-to texts, directions, instructions, whatever you want to call them--...

Last year, our state science tests fell before our science teacher was able to teach her Light unit. She was worried that students would not...

Essays are mostly finished! Several committed (and detail-oriented) students are putting together the fish pictures and essays so that we c...

December is a great time for focusing on sentences...they're short! I like to squeeze in some lessons about sentence variety in between ...

I used to think that teaching writing was all about the big, important questions--how does a writer share an experience? Which details are m...

Well, this week we're in the final days of finishing our essays. These are always the messiest times, with students scattered all throug...

How do we get kids to revise? This is often a matter of great frustration for teachers. Instead of really jumping back into a text, many stu...