Eric Pittman

Why do so many students rewrite the same story: "I was at the park." over and over again? It's because this is the only thing the students know how to draw. The purpose for this book is to develop and enhance your students’ drawing skills. As a longtime practitioner of Writer’s Workshop, I have found that many students are severely limited by a lack of representational drawing. I believe that by developing students’ drawing skills, we are giving them a greater vocabulary for writing their ow

These checklists are meant to help your students clearly understand the writing skills they are supposed to demonstrate during a unit of study. The checklists have clear pictures that make them very easy for preliterate students to use. I have been using these checklists in my own classroom for 6 years and have found them to be very helpful to the students. My colleagues have also observed that their students quickly take to using the checklists. They are a helpful tool for students to use w

These kindergarten word problems challenge students to deepen their understanding of addition and subtraction concepts while also grow in their ability to solve such problems.