‘Improve writing skills’ Blog Posts
How to Teach and Improve Vocabulary
April 18th, 2017 2018-12-12T16:51:46-08:00 2017-04-18T12:00:28-07:00 Bonnie Terry Bonnie Terry Learning Bonnie Terry
Improve vocabulary is one of the five components to teaching reading as well as improving reading skills. Vocabulary is a strong indicator of student success. Knowledge of words and word meanings is an important key to reading, speaking, and listening success.
How to Write a Paragraph With Ease
March 17th, 2016 2016-03-17T13:17:55-07:00 2016-03-17T01:37:29-07:00 Bonnie Terry Bonnie Terry Learning Bonnie Terry
Often teachers presume their students know how to write a paragraph. They assign them to write a paragraph either in the classroom or at home and expect them to know how to do it. This makes paragraph writing difficult. Without specific instruction taught repeatedly, students do NOT typically know how to write a paragraph. Mastering any type of writing needs both practice and review, including review of the step-by-step instructions.
Improve Writing Skills Webinar Replay Is Available
February 15th, 2016 2016-03-16T22:25:30-07:00 2016-02-15T20:47:30-08:00 Bonnie Terry Bonnie Terry Learning Bonnie Terry
Steps to Improve Writing Skills and Have Writing Skills in Place:
Be able to write three of the four types of simple sentences? (They should be doing this by 3rd grade.)
Be able to write a five sentence paragraph? (They should be doing this by 3rd grade.)
Be able to write a descriptive, narrative, or compare/contrast paragraph? (4th to 12th graders should be doing this.)
Be able to write a descriptive, narrative, compare/contrast, argumentative/persuasive essay (7th to 12th graders should be doing this.)
Complimentary Webinar — Improve Writing Skills in Just Minutes a Day (for students of all ages)
January 30th, 2016 2016-03-16T22:19:50-07:00 2016-01-30T22:27:20-08:00 Bonnie Terry Bonnie Terry Learning Bonnie Terry
