by Language Arts Lady | Jun 7, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching sentences and clauses (phrases will be in episode #52). Here are some of the highlights of this episode: CAVES—Capital, All makes sense, Verb, End mark, Subject; how to teach...
by Language Arts Lady | May 8, 2022 | How I Teach
Your Title Goes HereWelcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I talk about the littles. The second and third graders who aren’t quite through all of their phonics lessons yet (in many cases). The ones who would love to write if someone would take them...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 19, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching paragraph breaks and give a lot of my “paragraph theory” and “pre-writing theory.” Paragraph breaks is often a difficult concept for students. And teaching paragraph breaks is...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 19, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I continue with more essay teaching for middle school/junior high—but with a “research slat” that helps this age group move from essay writing to report writing. And… you can use the Teacher’s Notebook over and...
by Language Arts Lady | Mar 13, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I teach a five-paragraph essay—a super-duper fun writing project for students in fourth through eighth grades (with tweaks for going lower or higher in grades for this assignment!). The reason I say it is...
by Language Arts Lady | Feb 28, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I am (once again!) excited to teach you how I teach! I’m especially excited because this episode involves teaching elementary students. Yay for the littles! I love teaching how I teach elementary students...
by Language Arts Lady | Feb 15, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, we turn our attention to another mechanism to help students learn to write informational paragraphs. Writing informational paragraphs in which students get information from a source, outline from it, and write a...
by Language Arts Lady | Jan 31, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I continue to teach about the Five Paragraph Essay (or as I call it—the 1-3-1). Five paragraph essays have a lot more to them than simply being able to write an opening paragraph, three paragraphs for the body,...
by Language Arts Lady | Jan 21, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I teach one of my favorites (okay, just about all writing projects are my favorites!)—the Five Paragraph Essay. Five paragraph essays have gotten a little bit of a bum rap in my opinion. Students dread...
by Language Arts Lady | Jan 2, 2022 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I teach the important lesson of helping kids write Christmas thank-you cards. Writing thank-you cards can be challenging for adults, much less for kids. Kids often do not feel that they have the...
