Writing mini lessons

Using Jamboard templates for writing has been a game changer for my writing mini-lessons. It's easy to get students particpating and hold them accountable with these Jamboards for ELA.

Analyzing writing curriculums, planning writing workshop and teaching writing lessons can be overwhelming. You might think, how am I going to fit everything in and produce successful writers? Where do I start? What skills do they need? This post will share the 7 BASIC WRITING LESSONS that every teacher should teach! With this basic knowledge, students will be able to perform other writing assignments more effectively. The following skills are not only effective in upper elementary, they are…

These writing mini-lessons for the ENTIRE YEAR take the guesswork out of what to teach each day in writing each day.

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Are you looking for ideas to help your students become successful writers? This post begins a series 30+ writing mini lessons that has proven to help students write effectively. It will provide you with creative ideas to teach students sentence structure, paragraph writing, and narrative writing. It will walk

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Teacher Truth- I used to despise teaching Writer's Workshop. I understood the structure of the workshop model and the focus of each grading period, however, I didn't really know WHAT to teach each day during my mini-lessons. Fast forward a couple of years, and I had an amazing opportunity to visit an amazing teacher's classroom and observe her in action and I fell in love with her writing instruction! And then the next year, my amazing team and I decided to each tackle one subject and share…

Mini-lessons, aka focus lessons, are the most effective way of delivering explicit writing instruction for many reasons.Keep reading to find out the characteristics of a good mini-lesson, the advantages of using a mini-lesson, and how to use them in a middle school setting.