Tips and Tools for Teachers

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Then have your students participate in a writing lesson that will have them voting for you!

Prepare for a world of writing with this packet of exercises, tools and tips. Students learn a few ways to spice up writing, like sensory words, action verbs, supporting details, and point of view.

This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

Learn to use text formatting tools like capitalization, bold, underline, and italics to give emphasis to your writing.

Teach your Fourth Grader how to capitalize titles and headings correctly with these exercises, complete with interactive hints and tips!

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

Designed by teachers, this independent study packet offers Week 3 of reading, writing, math, social studies and science activities for fourth graders.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!