Summary Sentence – Secondary (Ms. McGinn)

Ms. McGinn teaches her six-graders how to create a summary sentence using an article about the Crusades.

Ms. Klingl teaches er seventh-graders how to revise a topic sentence about the novel, “Romeo and Juliet.”

Ms. French leads her sixth-graders in a whole class practice of varying vocabulary to improve a topic sentence about the impact of social media.

Watch an overview of the new customizable templates, which can easily be customized to fit your content and set your students up for success.

Students complete two sentence expansion activities around decimals and percentages through error analysis.

Ms. Rogers uses sentence expansion to assess her ninth-graders’ understanding of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson.

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 […]

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.

Students complete several TWR activities aroud the Readworks’ article, “Giving Thanks Around the World.”

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.