Sometimes Teaching

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In this fun project students will learn how to make a mind map, view examples, and then embark on creating their own. I originally created this project as a follow up for an activity on managing money, but it can easily be adapted for virtually any topic.

In this project students will learn the basic structure of a narrative story with a clear beginning that introduces characters, a setting, and a problem; middle that contains two attempts to solve the problem that fail; and a solution that contains a final attempt and a solution. Students will then use clear, explicit strategies to write their own pirate narratives.

Grammar the fun, easy, visual way it should have been taught. A fun guide to the basics of punctuation, parts of speech, and sentences that helps students learn grammar with smiles instead of groans.

In this fun writing activity students will plan, draft, revise, and write their own narrative stories based on a wordless comic strip. This is a great way both to introduce the organizational elements of narrative writing (a clear beginning, middle, and end) as well as to allow student's imaginations to roam free.

In this project students will plan and write their own narrative story using a structured scaffolding structure. This is a great way to help young writers learn to write a well-organized narrative story with a clear beginning, middle, and end.