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    Best Strategies for Teaching Narrative Writing to Struggling Students 

    • by Giselle Rivera
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    Getting struggling students to write a narrative essay can be like pulling teeth. It’s frustrating when you walk by a student’s desk after you teach a writing lesson and see that they have only two sentences written down. Two! And this is after 30 minutes of writing. I kid you not! So what do you […]

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    Mystery Science in 5th-Grade: Tips and Ideas for Implementation 

    • by Giselle Rivera
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    If you are a teacher who has to teach all subjects including PE (yep, that’s me), you are probably overwhelmed with lesson planning. Just coming up with engaging lessons for all subjects is very stressful. To tell you the truth, I dreaded teaching Science because I just didn’t know what to do to teach the […]

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    Step-By-Step Narrative Writing Lesson Plan for Struggling Students

    • by Giselle Rivera
    Step-by-step narrative writing lesson with student holding pencil and writing in notebook

    For some students, writing a narrative essay is like trying to climb Mount Everest- difficult, laborious, and daunting. But with the right guidance, you can turn that literary climb into an attainable accomplishment.  Breaking down an essay into manageable parts is the key to getting your most stubborn students to write. You’ll need at least […]

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