Teaching Paragraph Writing
If your child or students are working on paragraph writing, I wanted to share some strategies and printables to help make it easier and more effective. Here are two simple strategies that I frequently use. Graphic Organizers and Visual Supports Research Examples: Delano (2007); Asaro-Saddler & Bak (2012). Overview: Graphic organizers help students visually map out topic sentences, details, and conclusions before writing. Possible Examples: “Hamburger” or “Oreo” paragraph t
Teaching Paragraph Writing
If your child has mastered writing sentences, it can be a good time to start them working on putting related sentences together to write...
Writing Holiday Gift Thank-You Notes
Here's a free template that you can use to help your child write thank-you notes for holiday gifts. It can help make the writing process...
Templates for Learning to Write an Email
One of my tutoring students was asking me if a book written by a self-published author he liked was going to have a sequel. I suggested that we send the author an email to ask, so I made this short activity to help the student write the email. If your kids are working on learning to write emails, you could use this as a supplement to a unit or lesson on this topic, so that you have different ways for students to work on the concepts to promote generalization. Here's the link
Writing with Spaces in Between the Words
I've been working with one of my students on putting spaces between words when writing, and I wanted to share how I introduced and worked...
Site Plan (Architecture) Reading Passage and Writing
One of my tutoring students loves 3D modeling and design, so I made this reading passage, quiz, and writing activity to go along with his...
