While it is essential to assess student writing on an individual level, collaborative writing projects are extremely beneficial for students… and even teachers.

I created Fluency & Fitness years ago as a way to help students get up out of their seats to MOVE while still learning! Our school was very strict on making every moment count. I wanted to make sure that this brain break was…

Hi, my name is Teresa Kwant, and I have partnered with my friend Alisa at First Grade Fun Times. We have a sentence activity we guarantee your students will LOVE, and will be begging you to do each day. Understanding how a sentence is structured is crucial to…

Sometimes, just hearing about a writing task can send my students over the edge. Here are 3 different ways I “sneak” extra writing practice into our school day…

This year I updated some of the activities in my writing center and I am pretty excited about the changes! I have most of my writing centers in a pocket chart. These activities are not always assigned. Sometimes I have something completely different that I need them to work on in the writing center, sometimes these are used as early finished, and other times…