The Wright Teacher

Use this quick Google form assessment to assess your students' mastery of commonly confused words. This works well as both a pre-test and a post-test. Commonly confused words included are: accept/except affected/effected to/two/too they're/there/their lose/loose rite/right/write than/then waste/waist weather/whether you're/your its/it's

Wondering how to make nonfiction structures fun? Use this collaborative, active activity to get your students out of their seats and identifying nonfiction text structures "in the wild"! Students work in groups to examine six different articles and identify the different text structures using signal clues. Then, students will analyze how those structures helped to build the article's ideas. *Note: Articles are not included as I believe students will be most engaged in articles dealing with curr

Let students teach each other about the words that they misuse every day! Included in this product are instructions and a rubric for a "mini-poster" over a set of commonly confused words, as well as a "cheat sheet" for students to fill in as they learn from their peers' presentations. Commonly confused words included are: accept/except affected/effected to/two/too they're/there/their lose/loose rite/right/write than/then waste/waist weather/whether you're/your its/it's who's/whose