Writing+,Journal+ideas+-+middle+school

[|K-W-L-H technique]

[|Graphic organizers]

[|Persuasion map: interactive]

[|Essay mapping: interactive graphic organizer]

[|Compare/Contrast: interactive Venn Diagram]



[|List of writing prompts]

[|Prettiest Words list]

[|Adult writer's block (dial for help)]

[|Graphic Organizers]

[|A Quotation a Day...What do you think it means?]

[|Spin the wheel for an online Story-starter]

[|Home page 5th grade writing]

[|Terrific Poem starters]

[|Cause/Effect Interactive Venn Diagram]

[|Writing ideas Grades 1-12]



[|How to be a Better Teacher...good advice!]

[|Commas]

[|5th grade Language Arts Skill Builders (links)]





Read through each section with kids, asking for Author's Purpose (to inform, entertain, persuade, or technical writing). Ask the kids to get out a paper and write A. B.C.D., skipping several lines between on their paper. They each need to write down what they think is the main idea in one concise sentence. Later, compare to the teacher's main idea written under each section. Another practice on "Monkeys" is below, done the same way, only adding E. F. G. H. to their papers.

[|"WORDS" observation, video,handout]