Penobscot Nation

Students complete several TWR activities around the article, “Penobscot Nation.”

Students complete several TWR activities around the text, “Because of Winn Dixie” By Kate DiCamillo.

Students complete several TWR activities around the text, “The Cricket in Times Square” by George Seldon.

Students complete several TWR activities around the text, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter.

Students complete a sentences and fragments activity around Halloween content.

This webinar provides TWR activities and tips for how to teach your students to use transitional words and phrases. We will show ways transitions can be practiced at the sentence and paragraph levels, and reference posters you can hang in your classroom and share with students.

Students complete a basic conjunctions activity using because about being thankful.

This webinar answers the question: How do I teach my students to develop the SPO independently? We will identify the discrete skills required to complete an SPO, then discuss how the SPO scaffolds can be used to teach those skills. We also talk about the importance of using note-taking in the pre-writing planning process.

This webinar answers the question: How do I assess student writing at the beginning of the year? We discuss the importance and objective of assessing student writing; In addition, and we provide guidance around how to administer the assessment, analyze student work, and use the collected information to inform instruction. All tools we show are available […]

Students complete a whole-class brainstorm and SPO activity around autumn.