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Stop Skimming the Surface: Teaching Prepositional Phrases That Actually Stick

May 1, 2025 Jessica Rogers

teaching prepositional phrases

📌 “Getting students to add details is like pulling teeth!” Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Many teachers find themselves begging students to add more, but what they get is a random adjective here, an unnecessary adverb there, and not much else. Here’s the thing: if we want students to write with detail and clarity, we […]

Filed Under: Blog, Descriptive Writing, Lesson Planning, Mini-Lessons, Parts of Speech, Vocabulary

Micro Writing: Small Bursts, Big Results

April 14, 2025 Jessica Rogers

Micro writing - small burst, big results

📌 Why A common writing frustration—“Getting students to add details is like pulling teeth!” If you’ve ever heard this in your classroom, you know how difficult it can be to help students move beyond basic writing to more descriptive, refined work. ✍️ Why It’s Important Micro writing isn’t just about writing quickly, it’s about working […]

Filed Under: Editing and Revising, Lesson Planning, Mini-Lessons, Organizing, Revising and Editing, Writers' Notebook, Writers' Workshop

How to Use Mentor Texts in Writing

December 7, 2021 Jessica Rogers

Simply put, mentor texts are texts that serve as mentors, or guides, for reading and writing instructions. In writing, these texts will serve as an example of a strategy, craft, or convention that students can study in order to emulate in their own writing. In reading, these texts can be reread multiple times to discuss […]

Filed Under: Blog, Mini-Lessons, Writers' Workshop

Writers’ Workshop: Show Don’t Tell

April 1, 2021 Jessica Rogers

Every elementary Writers’ Workshop teacher has a go-to “Show, Don’t Tell” lesson in which students learn how to show or illustrate what is happening, instead of merely stating it. But do we ever have enough? Do the students ever master this highly important writing skill?? Exactly! So here is another lesson to add to your […]

Filed Under: Blog, Characterization, Descriptive Writing, Mini-Lessons, Personal Narrative, Strategies/Craft, Vocabulary, Writers' Workshop

Writers’ Workshop: Incorporating a Research Unit

February 3, 2020 Jessica Rogers

How can I stay true to the Writers’ Workshop model while doing what I know to be best practice in research?

Filed Under: Blog, Expository Writing, Mini-Lessons, Research, Technology, Writers' Workshop

Writers’ Workshop: Organizing Ideas for Personal Narrative Drafts

September 11, 2019 Jessica Rogers

Using a read aloud mentor text to teach students how to write a personal narrative

We are getting Writers’ Workshop kicked off school-wide – K-12!

Filed Under: Blog, Instructional Coaching, Mini-Lessons, Personal Narrative, Retell, Writers' Notebook, Writers' Workshop

Modeling Generating Ideas with Heart Maps in Elementary

September 4, 2019 Jessica Rogers

Have students generate a heart map to generate ideas that they will want to write about in a writers workshop

We are getting Writers’ Workshop kicked off school-wide – K-12!

Filed Under: Blog, Mini-Lessons, Personal Narrative, Writers' Notebook, Writers' Workshop

Mini-Lesson Basics

August 8, 2019 Jessica Rogers

Through my many visits to schools and classrooms, I have realized that there is a myriad of ways the term “mini-lesson” is being used. It’s almost like the “old-fashioned” (according to my kids) game of telephone. A definition began, was passed to another educator, changed slightly, passed to another, and so on. As we start […]

Filed Under: Blog, Mini-Lessons, Teaching Structures

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