The practice guide “Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective” provides specific, evidence-based recommendations for teaching writing. Below is an overview of the four key recommendations and associated teaching strategies and an indicator of the current level of evidence supporting … Continued
Have you heard this rhyme? When two vowels go out walking, the first one does the talking. True, there are a number of double vowel combinations in which the vowel sound it represents is the same as the ‘name’ of … Continued
I love teaching persuasive writing because it just requires the teaching of a formula. Once students have mastered the formula then they are able to write a cohesive, structured argument. The difficulty for many children is remembering the formula and … Continued
Tip 1: Teach the written language code. Tip 2: Be empathetic and patient. Tip 3: Celebrate errors and use them as a tool to understand the student’s thought processes. Tip 4: Provide meaningful success. Tip 5: Revise, revise, revise and … Continued
Sijos are three-lined poems believed to have been developed in Korea in the fourteenth-century as short songs with musical accompaniment. They tended to focus on nature and contemplation. Teaching students how to write Sijos could be a useful activity to … Continued