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Blog Post
Focus on Freewriting
Blog Post
Crazy Over Captions
Blog Post
Gauge Your Students' Grammar
Blog Post
Create a Lively Reader Response
Blog Post
How to Create Engaging Writing Prompts
Blog Post
Invigorate Reading Discussions
English Language Arts:
Reading
Blog Post
Listen with Empathy
Blog Post
Best Practices for Writing Conferences
Minilesson
Evaluating Sources of Information
Evaluate sources with a checklist.

Blog Post
How to Evaluate Media
English Language Arts:
Reading
21st Century Skills:
Media Literacy
Information Literacy
Reading
Minilesson
Punctuating Dialogue
Teach quotation marks with end punctuation.
Blog Post
Sandwich Your Quotations
English Language Arts:
Quotation Marks
Writing
21st Century Skills:
Researching
FAQ Page
What are the qualities of writing?
English Language Arts:
Qualities of Writing
Structure
Ideas
Conventions
WE 001 Why Write?
Noun Town
Pronoun Palace
Verb Valley
Modifier Mountain
Preposition Path
Conjunction Cavern
Sentence City
Grammar Adventures
Student Writing Model
Grandpa, Chaz, and Me
Cody, a fourth grader, writes about his wish that his little brother could have known their grandfather.
Level:
Grade 4
Grade 5
Mode:
Narrative Writing
Form:
Personal Narrative
Theme:
Family
Love
Home
People
Personality