Click HERE to download! Gretchen Bernabei shares this great strategy to help our students beef up their sentences. Do you read sent...

Hello! I’m dropping by to share something I started doing that is saving me tons of time, not to mention paper! I have been teaching for nine years, and something I have always dreaded was stapling rubrics onto my students’ writing. I was wasting so much time and paper copying these things and stapling them ... Read More about Time Saving Writing Templates with Embedded Rubrics!

How do you encourage your students to write longer, more interesting sentences? You know what will happen if you simply them to write longer sentences... they'll just add more words to the end, resulting in long, rambling run-ons! After struggling with this problem myself, I developed a three-step process to help my students turn boring sentences into super sentences. I began by teaching them the difference between fragments, run-ons, and complete sentences. Then we practiced revising and…

Gave this to my kids this semester...want to pin the website to use again!

Quite a few years ago when I was getting my first training on GT kids, the presenter shared the idea of having a "the answer is..." bulletin board. The idea is that the teacher provides the answer, and the students come up with the question. I've always loved the idea because it can be adapted for any grade level, and the students can come up with a simple question or a much more complex. In my classroom, I first put up the bulletin board and left it open for the kids to come up with…

Language Arts Freebies in Laura Candler's online file cabinet for teachers.

This fall marks the sixteenth year that I will be returning to school as an English teacher. Every summer I start planning for the year... what will I keep, what will I change, what will I try for the first time? Of course, after so many years there are bound to be many things that I ditch, and even more that I tweak and adjust to better fit the needs to my students. But, after more than ten years of use, I have a favorite strategy that I always make time for -- teaching writing with mentor…

Check out this list of prepositions to help your young learner master her parts of speech!

Types of sentences.

Sentence Patterns

This fall marks the sixteenth year that I will be returning to school as an English teacher. Every summer I start planning for the year... what will I keep, what will I change, what will I try for the first time? Of course, after so many years there are bound to be many things that I ditch, and even more that I tweak and adjust to better fit the needs to my students. But, after more than ten years of use, I have a favorite strategy that I always make time for -- teaching writing with mentor…

{FREEBIE!} Interactive Notes: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

Compound Sentence Patterns

Struggling to get your students to use complex sentences in speech and language therapy? If so, play this video and let me explain it to them for you! Click the image to view the video. #speechtherapy #languagetherapy #schoolslp #syntax