Are you trying to get your children to learn their parts of speech?  Do they need to vary their sentence structure and elaborate them?  Her...

We have been very busy in fourth grade!  I am finally adjusting to our new curriculum and the Common Core.  It was hard letting go of our pr...

I have so many new standards to teach this year and love looking for new ideas to implement in my class.  Last week I taught multiple meanin...

I have been talking about sensory details to create visual images since the beginning of the school year. I want my students to start in...

We read the book Many Luscious Lollipops and I had the children write two sentences about candy using three or more adjectives.  ...

I taught a few mini-lessons from Razzle Dazzle Writing last week.    The book is kid and teacher friendly and contains many printables.   ...