Ela writing

Create a classroom of writers with these fun writing activities for middle school students! There's something for everyone!

Expanding Sentences Anchor Chart and Mini-Lesson

Use Mentor Sentences in your ELA middle school classroom to improve student writing! Find practical ideas to teach writing skills.

Sentence Starters and Transitions Anchor Chart for Informational Writing! Helps Grade 1-3 students transition from their topic sentence, to points, facts, and closing. Great support for independent writing.

These writing prompts are grade for upper elementary and junior high/middle school students! Use them to help prepare students for writing essays! #tpt #teacherspayteachers #writing #wouldyourather #prompts #writingprompts #elementary #juniorhigh #middleschool #ela #languagearts #ell #esl #english

As middle school ELA teachers, we all want to work to empower our young writers. They often come to us a little shaky, a little unsure. Teaching students--SHOWING THEM--that writing is a process can help middle school writers to build confidence and skill. Ultimately, our job as ELA teachers is not to teach students to scaffold and support students to write a singular essay. Our job is to give students the tools to become WRITERS beyond our classrooms. That means giving students the tools to…

These are my favorite, and most effective, ways of teaching writing to elementary students. You may decide that teaching writing is

How to teach writing strategies to kids - ideas and activities for elementary students #teachingwriting #writing #1stgrade #2ndgrade #3rdgrade

One of my biggest units of the school year is my informational writing unit. This can be a tricky unit for students because students want to write with first or second person pronouns and include their own opinions. Teaching informational writing takes time and practice to help students succeed at it, especially if students have informational writing topics they are passionate about.