Ways to Improve Writing Through Mentor Sentences
Writing just might be the most difficult academic subject to teach. When done well, it looks completely effortless. You and I know different though. By
Category: Middle School Writing
Middle School Mentor Sentences Narrative Essay Dialogue Freebie
We have been working on writing our narrative essays in my seventh and eighth grade middle school ELA classes, and in the process, I have
The One Thing I Do To Keep My Grading Down as a Middle School English Teacher
One of the biggest adjustments I had to learn going from upper elementary to middle school ELA was how not to kill myself with grading
Writing Conferences in Middle School English Language Arts
This blog post is a kind of spin off of my Narrative Writing blog post that talks all about writing narratives in middle school English Language
Middle School Narrative Essays and Middle School Writing Conferences
Five years ago, I had just started my first year of teaching 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts. We were working on writing middle
Using Mentor Sentences to Teach Grammar in Middle School
I recently just finished my first set of Middle School Mentor Sentences to teach grammar. As I’ve started talking about and posting about Mentor Sentences, I’ve
Writing Authentic Narratives in Middle School
I recently finished writing Narratives with my 7th and 8th graders. I started planning for it weeks in advance because I wanted my students to
