Writing tutoring ideas

Look inside this tutoring binder to see what one elementary teacher brings to tutor struggling students in literacy and math. Lots of resource and freebies!

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4 fun ideas for Writing Games

It’s done! What I thought would take a couple hours to spruce up ended up taking me days! I just kept changing things and adding things, but finally I have a product I’m happy with. Introducing the Tutoring Toolkit: In a previous post, I blogged about some tutoring tips and showed you inside my tutoring ... Read More about Tutoring Toolkit

After-school tutoring can be a great way to use your teaching skills and strategies to reach students on a different level while earning a little extra income along the way. Legal Stuff 1. See Your Accountant We do not offer tax or legal advice so be sure to consult your accountant and/or attorney to make sure that your tutoring business is set up correctly in your state or region before starting out. Getting Ready 1. Securing a Place Secure a place where you will conduct your tutoring. I…

Does your child get anxious as they start a writing assignment when they're staring at a blank sheet of paper? StoryBuilders is a wonderful tool for answering the question most homeschool moms have heard, "what

Tutoring Tips: Primary Tutoring Simplified - If you are a tutor, you NEED to click through to check out this post for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students. You'll get great ideas to help kids master their reading skills or simply keep them sharp all school year long. Find ideas, activities and more for reading comprehension, phonics, warm ups, fluency practice, and MORE! #reading #literacy #tutoring

Check out these great tips and ideas for small group writing instruction and activities, including standards-based guided writing! #teachingwriting #writinginstruction

One of my favorite ways to support struggling writers in my elementary classroom is by modeling the writing process! Another great way to offer support is through the use of writing prompts, which also increases student engagement! I'm even including a great writing prompt resource for distance learning. Try these strategies, and learn about other methods you can use, when you read my post now!

I am so excited to be ‘back in the saddle’ and teaching third grade again this year! I’ve been busily working on learning the new standards and crafting a plan that works for my new students in the fall. If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that my favorite two grades...Read More »

Simple tips for improving writing in your second or third grade classroom. These tips are a must if you want better writers!

Upper elementary teachers, help your students understand the steps to crafting the perfect how to procedural writing piece with these easy to use tips and tricks that I use in my own classroom. In this blog post I break down how I teach procedural writing, what anchor charts and graphic organizers to use, what tips and ideas I give students as they write, plus it includes a free student guide perfect for student notebooks. Click to read this quick blog post today!

Hi Friends! Confession time…writing is my LEAST favorite subject to teach. I know, I know…teachers shouldn’t have favorites! In all seriousness, teaching writing to first graders was not my favorite subject to teach. I was in a place where I thought, “If it’s boring to me, isn’t it boring for them?” I desperately needed to spice things up. That year I made it my professional goal to improve my writing instruction. I spent time reading, researching best practices and developing a system that…

Activities for improving students sentences- So many great ideas here for helping students write better sentences. TheApplicousTeacher.com

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Great teaching tips and ideas for writing in complete sentences and using subjects and predicates! Subjects and predicates go together like peanut butter and jelly! This is a series of writing lessons with links to other sentence structure activities.

Structured-literacy-lessons will help you and your students make the most of reading tutoring and will help prevent the summer slide.

My students are always using and referring to different writing tools. I created these individual writing toolkits with lots of free writing resources.

Got a reluctant writer on your hands? Adding some silliness can be a great way to liven things up and increase your child's interest in writing. Try this free, printable writing activity today and get ready to laugh!