NEW Practicing the Parts of a Narrative and Informative for ATLAS (February 2026)
NEW New & Improved Practicing the Parts of a Narrative & Informative to Ensure Mastery (December 2025)
Practicing the Parts--WOC Meets ATLAS Presentation (with table of contents & index of resources)
Writing on Command Meets ATLAS--Establishing A Building Writing Plan 2025
NEW Blog–Kill Two Birds With One Stone–Pull in Writing Instruction During Reading Instruction (March 2026)
NEW Blog–Idiom Stories help students with the ATLAS writing test in so many ways and take up so very little instructional time! (March 2026)
NEW Blog--Where to Start When Winter Interim Writing Scores Are Disappointing (February 2026)
NEW Yes MAAM, You Help Students Elaborate, But No MAAM, You're Not Enough (February 2026)
NEW Understanding Your Writing Interim Scores--What Are They Telling You?
Kill Two Birds With One Stone--Read then Write (Ditch Your Study Guide and Do This Instead!) (September 2025)
Okay--so I've decided to implement WOC. What's next? (September 2025)
What's Thinking Got to do With It? (September 2025)
When a Dash Forces Your Down a Rabbit Hole (April 2025)
The Anatomy of a Paragraph (November 2024)
Narrative Length--How to Get your Students to Write More (October 2024)
What Can We Learn From One Who Grows Writers? (October 2024)
Turning Students into Writers (August 2024)
Curiosity May Have Killed the Cat, But It May Just Secure An Accurate ATLAS Reading Score Too (March 2024)
In Defense of Teaching Zeugma (March 2024)
Reading and Writing Are Intricately Connected (February 2024)
Alliteration Practice Sample Responses
Compound Sentence Practice AND Hunt Activity
The LY opener, The Dash & Side Comments--Wooing Readers with Impressive Style Cheat Sheet Rubric Writing Document Kahoot
Narrative Writing Quiz on Google Form (Dialogue, Dash & Side Comments)
Sample Pacing Guides (Integrating reading & writing) Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4
Sample Pacing Guide (teaching writing only) 1st Semester