Writing strategies

Teach students how to edit their writing with this FREE COPS checklist! The COPS editing strategy is a simple way to teach students how to edit their writing. COPS stands for capitalization, organization, punctuation, and spelling. The acronym is designed to help students remember what to look for during the editing process. You will be amazed at how quickly your students learn the steps and start using them independently! Download this freebie today!

Read practical teaching ideas to help your struggling writers with essay writing. Teaching writing in middle school can be challenging, and these 10 strategies will help build student success. #teachingwriting #middleschoolela #middleschoolwriting

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Students turning in writing with errors? Here's a strategy to help with editing. Also included: a creative solution for the online STAAR! Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

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A picture illustrating ARMS and COPS strategies for revising and editing essays. #writinghelp #essaywriting #revisionstrategies

Check out these teaching materials for upper elementary students including task and reference cards on writing narrative hooks.

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Here are 8 Amazing Fun and Engaging Writing Activities Teachers Can Use To Improve their Students’ Writing Skills

CLASS PARTY. The words sometimes strike fear in the heart of a teacher, right? As if we don't already have enough to do, we have to plan a class party too? Oh the chaos! But it turns out it's possible to put together a simple party, devoid of chaos, that's still tons of fun! Whether you're the teacher or the room parent planning the party, we hope this post gives you some great ideas!

Writing doesn’t have to be hard. Whenever I talk to fellow teachers about what they HATE teaching… it always seems to be writing. Why is that? I theorize that it’s because writing is very personal. There’s no cut and dry methods that work for ALL students. It is also time consuming to teach AND especially […]

When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to cover. They range from creating a sequence of events (beginning, middle, and end) to more difficult

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Have an ADHD student who hates writing?! When teaching to the ADHD brain, it's important to modify your teaching approach to meet the needs of your unique student. If you need strategies to motivate ADHD kids to write, you're in the right place. Here are 25 teaching tips to help resistant writers write w confidence. Writing activities, graphic organizers, & other motivational strategies to help kids w unique learning styles! How to help kids with Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, ADHD & more!

My students are always using and referring to different writing tools. I created these individual writing toolkits with lots of free writing resources.

I want to re-introduce a concept that you probably already think you know how to do: free writing. But there is probably more to it than you think! The habit of free writing could transform your writing life. Learn how in this post! #writing #freewriting #writinghabit #betterwriting