Informational writing middle school

I have always found writing to be one of the most challenging subjects to teach. More specifically, informative, or explanatory writing has always been my biggest nemesis!! My students often come to me with varying levels of writing background, their own unique styles, and a variety of topic interests. It has taken me many years to fine tune my craft for teaching informative writing. Over the years, I have developed mini-lessons to help my students to better understand this particular genre…

This blog post is a kind of spin off of my Narrative Writing blog post that talks all about writing narratives in middle school English Language Arts. This post is more in-depth about how I do Writing Conferences and peer-editing in my 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts classroom. Writing Conferences are probably the thing ... Read more

Expository Thinking Map

Find an informational writing leads anchor chart and great tips for helping your students with informational writing.

Do you teach informational writing? I do and I used to hate it. I would gladly teach narrative writing all day long, but information...

By The Daring English Teacher When it comes to teaching writing in the middle school ELA or high school English class, it can oftentimes feel like there is just so much content to teach. And in all honesty, that is entirely true. We simply do not have enough time to teach students every single thing they need to know in order to be the best writers they can be. However, we can focus on essential skills one at a time to build strong writers. When I first teach a type of writing to my…

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Students will select their topics from 20 different writing prompts. Use these middle school creative writing lessons in your ELA classroom. Middle school students love creative writing when giving choice and engaging writing prompts.