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Writing SOS: My son has lost his enthusiasm for writing. How can I help?

Kyley Pulphus suggests a few ways for parents to make writing fun and take the pressure off of being perfect.

Parents Promote Writing

Reading experts explain why parents should create opportunities for their children to write.

Writing SOS: Should grammar still be taught in school?

Writing expert William Van Cleave explains that understanding how sentences work helps to improve both reading comprehension and writing.

Writing Poems

Lynn Reichle and her second-grade students go on a writing adventure called the Writers’ Workshop.

Greedy Cat: Retelling a Story Sequence to Build Comprehension

Students build skills essential to reading comprehension by retelling a story. Visit LitDiet.org to view to view the full lesson plan.

Five Senses Graphic Organizer: A Planning Strategy for Descriptive Writing

Students use their five senses and a graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas for writing a report on a recent school event and to think about interesting words to include in their report.

3 Different Ways to Combine Sentences | Combining Sentences

This video from Breaking English goes over three different ways to combine sentences using common connectors and conjunctions.

Show NOT Tell Using Your 5 Senses

Kimberly Yonke models Show NOT Tell using the five senses.

Starring Details: Helping Writers Revise by Adding Details

Discussing different strategies to revise written work and modeling how to add detail to the middle of a piece of writing helps students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composition.