50 Writing Prompts For Elementary Students
What do you like more, reading or writing? Why? What do you like most about yourself? What superpower do you wish you had?

What do you like more, reading or writing? Why? What do you like most about yourself? What superpower do you wish you had?

In short, your thesis is your ‘point’–what you’re trying to argue. And writing one is about clarifying, arguing, and proving that point.

If your child doesn’t read over the summer, they are missing out on the significant role reading can play in personal growth.

How can we help students who are reading below grade level? How can we help struggling mathematicians?

There are specific, research-based guidelines toward which you should aim when building your classroom library.

The writing process is a sequence of strategies to plan, write, and ultimately publish a polished, accurate, well-organized piece of writing.

Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.

Literature Circles are a way for students to assume a specific role in the study of something (usually a text).
By demystifying the writing process through modeling, teachers demonstrate what writing looks like in all of its unedited, imperfect glory.

Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.

SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).
A metaphor is a literary device (or figure of speech) that makes a comparison between two ‘things’ without the comparison being literal.

While the content can be dramatic, dystopian novels for young adults can offer a kind of practice for navigating an uncertain world.
Quality sources of free reading passages are useful for any teacher regardless of grade level or content area.