4th+Grade+Sharing

=4th Grade Writing Strategies =

=== Strategies for Teaching Idea Generation ===

Strategies for Pre-writing
=== Strategies for Improving Writer's Self-Concept of Skills ===

Strategies for Personal Narratives
=== Strategies to Improve Writing Organization === === Strategies to Help Motivate Students ===

Strategies to Help Improve Voice
How to teach “Voice” – Kathy

[] This site has a great (and humorous) article on how to teach voice.

[] More specific how-to info. on teaching “voice.”

Strategies for Essay Writing
===We are starting our paragraph essays on a topic from the Middle Ages. We have generated ideas from a K-W-L chart, computer lab searches and class discussion. Students have research booklets in which they have recorded questions related to their topic, with a question on each page. As they are reading and researching, and they find information related to each question, they bullet the information on that page. They will use the bulleted information as details in their paragraphs. Now, if I can only get them to understand what a Topic Sentence is......     Strategies for Improving Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar === === Strategies for Teaching Editing Skills ===