Welcome to HIT—How I Teach…. Each week in this innovative audiocast/videocast, I bring you tips, tricks, and techniques for teaching writing, language arts, grammar, and more (to grades two through twelve) drawing upon my 100+ curriculum books totaling over 50,000 pages.
But wait…there’s more! Not only do I teach parents, teachers, and homeschoolers the hundreds of teaching tools I have developed over the past twenty years, listeners/viewers also get a weekly downloadable booklet, Teacher’s Notebook (TN) that has actual lesson sheets that you can print off and use with your students to teach the very topic that I just taught you!
And for your convenience, How I Teach…. is available as a podcast on iTunes (follow along in your TN sheets for that week-coming soon!) and a YouTube video (with Power Point containing the same as the TN)!
After thirty-two years of homeschooling, two decades of curriculum writing, two dozen years of teaching and tutoring outside my family, and six years of undergraduate and graduate studies in elementary education and Reading Specialist (as well as Orton Gillingham dyslexia training), I am thrilled to become your teaching assistant!
So join me each week via email notifications, YouTube, iTunes, the Teacher’s Notebook sheets, or all of the above to learn how to teach all writing types (including all of the mini-lessons that students need in order to succeed in each type of writing); grammar, usage, and sentence structure in the easiest ways possible for student success; words, vocabulary, homophones, spelling, and more! There isn’t anything writing or grammar-related that I won’t be tackling! I want so many good things for you and your students! See you soon!
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How I Teach….(Episode #52)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching phrases,...
How I Teach… Sentences, Clauses, and Phrases (Episode #51)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching sentences and...
How I Teach… Writing Paragraphs From a Characteristics List (Elementary Level) (Episode #50)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I talk about the littles. The second and third...
How I Teach… Paragraph Break, Paragraph Theory, Paragraph Fun! (Episode #49)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching paragraph...
How I Teach… Five Paragraph Essays/Almost Reports for Junior High (Episode #48)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I continue with more essay teaching for middle...
How I Teach…“Five Paragraph ‘Fun’ Essays for Middle Schoolers” (Including Opening and Closing Paragraph Instruction!) (Episode #47)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach a five-paragraph essay—a super-duper fun...
How I Teach…Teaching Prepositions to Elementary Students (“Bugs on a Log”) (Episode #46)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I am (once again!) excited to teach you how I...
How I Teach…Outlining and Writing the Q and A Essay (Middle School) (Episode #45)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, we turn our attention to another mechanism to...
Episode #44 How I Teach…The 5 Paragraph Essay for Junior High and High School Students (Part II of II)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I continue to teach about the Five Paragraph...
How I Teach…The 5 Paragraph Essay for Junior High and High School Students (Part I of II) (Episode #43)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach one of my favorites (okay, just about all...
How I Teach… Helping Kids Write Christmas Thank-You Cards (Episode #42)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach the important lesson of helping kids...
How I Teach…Time Management and The Prioritizing Planner (II of II) (Episode #41)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I continue teaching about one of my top ten...
How I Teach…Time Management and The Prioritizing Planner (Episode #40)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I talk about one of my top ten favorite things:...
How I Teach…Writing a “Known” Holiday Story in Their Own Words (For Middle Schoolers) (Episode #39)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....in this episode, I teach how I teach beginning story writing for...
How I Teach…Writing Boxes for Elementary Grades With Frosty (Episode #38)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I talk about a subject that is near and dear to...
How I Teach… Twice-Told Tale Story Writing for Middle School (Elves and Shoemaker) (Episode #37)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teachers, parents, and teaching parents how to...
How I Teach…How I Teach…100+ Prepositions by Their Purposes and Within Categories (Episode #36)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I delve into the concept of a lengthy, thorough,...
How I Teach…Before and After Character Description With Scrooge (Episode #35)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I share how I teach a character analysis using a...
How I Teach… The “Research-Based” Essay for Junior High & High School (Three Ways to Survive in a Jungle) (Episode #34)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I take the concept of writing essays and join it...
How I Teach…Writing From a Q and A Outline for Elementary and Middle School Students (Episode #33)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, the question and answer format is utilized for...
How I Teach…Editing Student Papers—Including Proofreaders’ Marks, Special Coding, and More! Part II of II (Episode #32)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this second part (of two) episodes, I teach the important skill...
How I Teach…Editing Student Papers—Including Proofreaders’ Marks, Special Coding, and More! Part I of II (Episode #31)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach the important skill of editing student...
How I Teach…Finish the Scene Story Writing for Middle School and Beyond (Episode #30)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach from a fun finish this story lesson for...
How I Teach…Using an Ongoing (Repeated) Grammar Quiz to Aid in Memorization for Junior High and High School (Episode #29)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this, I geek out a little bit on grammar, namely my weekly...
How I Teach…Descriptive Writing Using Describers and Literary Devices for Middle Schoolers
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I bring you how to use describing words in...
How I Teach…Descriptive Writing for Young Writers Using a Paragraph House Outline (Episode #27)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I go back to the littles for descriptive writing!...
How I Teach…Dialogue for Upper High School Story Writing (Part II of II) (Episode #26)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....in this episode, I am ready to teach you with quotation examples...
How I Teach…Dialogue for Upper High School Story Writing (Part I of II) (Episode #25)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this eisode, we are going to dig into all things dialogue for...
How I Teach…Quotation Inclusion for Essay Writing—Jr. High and High School (Episode #24)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach a skill that many writing teachers shy...
Twice-Told Tale Story Writing for Junior High and Above Part II of II
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episdoe (second part of Twice-Told Tale!) It’s time to...
How I Teach…Twice-Told Tale Story Writing for Junior High and Above (Episode#22)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode (and the next---two parter!), I have a blast...
How I Teach….Order of Parts of Speech and Articles (Episode #21)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I geek out on ways to order parts of speech...
How I Teach…How to Turn Any Passage Into a Writing Source for Middle Schoolers and More! (Episode #20)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In episode #20, I explain how to choose a passage to give your...
How I Teach…Beginning Think Fast Grammar Quiz (Episode #19)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In episode #19, I teach how to use a weekly (or daily!) grammar...
How I Teach…Color-Coded Checklist Challenge for Revising Papers Third Grade and Up (II of II) (Episode #18)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I continue teaching about using a checklist for...
How I Teach…Color-Coded Checklist Challenge for Revising Papers Third Grade and Up (I of II) (Episode #17)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I introduce you to my Checklist Challenge (CC)...
How I Teach…The One Favorite Essay/Report for Elementary Students (#16)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I am excited (again!) to teach you about how I...
How I Teach…Very Short Descriptive “Story” for Junior High (Episode #15)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I am thrilled to bring you some insights in to...
How I Teach…First Person Essay Writing-YOU Are the Character! (Episode #14)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I bring you a darling (and fun!) first person...
How I Teach….The Fun 3 or 5 Paragraph Essay (Episode #13)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I bring you a super fun essay writing project of...
How I Teach…Original Short Story Writing Part II of II (Episode #12)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....in this episdoe, I bring you part II of two parts of how to teach...
How I Teach….Original Short Story Writing Part I of II (Episode #11)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I bring you part I of two parts of how to teach...
How I Teach…The Dialogue Story for 6th-12th Grade Students (Episode #10)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In HIT #10, I teach the fun, valuable, and exciting skill of...
How I Teach….Student Editing and Revising Using the Checklist Challenge (Episode #9)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In HIT #9, I’m Suuuuper excited to teach you how to use my...
How I Teach….Spelling Practice for All Ages and Programs (With Two Amazing Tools!) (Episode #8)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In HIT#8, I present two spelling practice tools that you can...
How I Teach…Paragraph Writing from Paragraph House Outline (Episode #7)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode #7, I’m excited to bring you some tips for young...
How I Teach….Twice-Told Tales (Spin-Off Stories) (Episode #6)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach.... Each week in this innovative audiocast/videocast, I bring you...
How I Teach… Sentence-by-Sentence Outlining From a Given Source (Episode #5)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach.... Each week in this innovative audiocast/videocast, I bring you...
How I Teach… Beginning Research Report Writing (Episode #4)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach.... Each week in this innovative audiocast/videocast, I bring you...
How I Teach…Beginning Sentence and Paragraph Writing With Writing Boxes…(Episode #3)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach.... Each week in this innovative audiocast/videocast, I bring you...
How I Teach… Writing a Very Short Story & To/Too/Two (Episode #2)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach.... Each week in this innovative audiocast/videocast, I bring you...
How I Teach…Three “Favorites” Essay and Their/There/They’re (Episode #1)
Welcome to HIT---How I Teach.... Each week in this innovative audiocast/videocast, I bring you...