Informational Writing Tools and Strategies by Emmanuel Fairley https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas In the columns below, offer tools and/or strategies that colleagues can use to improve student understanding of the writing concept with the biggest need for growth. en-us 2018-01-05 18:30:47 UTC 2025-09-30 12:34:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png efairley https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/219009602 To help students better understand "lead" try...

]]> 2018-01-05 18:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/219009602 I'm wonder how to help students strengthen endings and I'm curious about how we could make this concrete for students. In grade five we've tried to teach the students to address the questions "What?" and "So what?" Then, we've tried to add language stems to each question. ksomers4 https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398220 2018-01-10 21:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398220 Natasha has a great tool for students to try out different leads and endings! https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398396 2018-01-10 21:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398396 Have students practice together or with do nows where there are capitalization errors and punctuation errors they need to fix https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398556 2018-01-10 21:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398556 efairley https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398566 Perhaps students need more discussion about the purpose and function of an ending. Maybe students can try writing short endings to narratives that have already been written. For example, they could read a narrative that's been written without an ending, and then their task to to quickly create an ending to be shared. 

]]> 2018-01-10 21:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398566 https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398631 having students talk about the topic with a shoulder partner before going to work on their writing assignment  ]]> 2018-01-10 21:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398631 Have students practice writing sentences with different punctuations for example, students can practice writing a morning message or Good News, and the task is to add a sentence that ends with a period, a sentence that ends with a question mark, and aa sentence that ends with an exclamation point. https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398749 2018-01-10 21:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220398749 https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220399199 Instead of saying first, next, last try other transition phrases or words]]> 2018-01-10 21:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220399199 Ask students to go back and name (or even annotate in the margin) the main idea or purpose of each paragraph. https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220399782 2018-01-10 21:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/efairley/GrewWritingIdeas/wish/220399782