by Sharon Watson | Sep 18, 2016 | High School Prompts, High School Tutorial, Middle School Prompts, Middle School Tutorial, Sharon's Blog, teaching aids, tutorial, Writing Prompts
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Looking for a fun way to teach grammar concepts to your 7th – 12th grade students?
This bundle of tutorials is geared to hold your students’ interest with colorful infographics and quirky sentences to work on. Each tutorial contains a lesson, an exercise, and the answers, all free for you to download and print at your leisure.
Commas with compound sentences, dialog punctuation, singular indefinite pronouns, and much more!
Use them now or bookmark them for future use.
Some of the tutorials below are featured in our eBook Let’s Eat Fifi. Read more about that 23-lesson grammar book here.
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by Sharon Watson | Sep 11, 2016 | High School Prompts, High School Tutorial, Middle School Prompts, Middle School Tutorial, Sharon's Blog, teaching aids, tutorial, Writing Prompts
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Do you “have a plan” or have you “hatched a scheme”? Are your students writing about the “circulation” of the blood or about how the blood “circulates”?
Do they understand how to use specific adjectives? Do they know the power of connotations? Do they turn sluggish nouns into working verbs? Do they define their terms?
Enjoy these nine tutorials that teach all of these things and much more. They will instruct your students in the finer art of using the elegant English language. Now students are not just writing; they are communicating.
Appropriate for 7th-12th graders. Use the lessons now or bookmark them for future use.
It’s time to dive into the splashy end of the pool . . . (more…)
by Sharon Watson | Sep 4, 2016 | High School Prompts, High School Tutorial, Sharon's Blog, teaching aids, tutorial
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Persuasion. How-to. Compare and contrast. Enumerative. Are your students baffled by these types of essays?
Take heart! Use the 13 links you’ll find below that show how to format and write 6 types of paragraphs and essays.
As an added bonus, the last link leads to a very handy writing schedule you can use all year. Never say, “Write an essay,” again! (You’ve got to be kidding!)
These tutorials are appropriate for students in 7th – 12th grade. Use them now or bookmark them for future use.
{Writing Tip: If your student is not quite ready to write a whole essay, give him or her practice in writing the types of paragraphs you’ll find in this post. For instance, instead of writing a whole compare-and-contrast essay, how about a compare-and-contrast paragraph from one of the links in #5?}
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by Sharon Watson | Aug 28, 2016 | High School Prompts, Middle School Prompts, Sharon's Blog, Writing Prompts
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The U. S. National Park Service is over 100 years old! This bundle of prompts for 5th – 12th graders contains over a dozen creative writing prompts on parks: city, national, and international.
For more information on the National Park Service, including a cool page on nature’s sounds, follow this link. >>
Ready to explore? Let’s go . . . (more…)
by Sharon Watson | Aug 21, 2016 | High School Prompts, High School Tutorial, Middle School Prompts, Middle School Tutorial, Sharon's Blog, teaching aids, tutorial
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Could your students use some writing tools?
Your students have to come up with a paragraph or an essay, but they do not know where to begin. They do not know where to get ideas, how to formulate a plan, how to narrow down their topic, how to organize their ideas, how to write a credible paragraph, and so on.
Does this sound familiar?
Then you’ve come to the right place! Use the links below to equip your students with the writing tools they need to be successful this year. Many of these links contain tutorials and free worksheets to download. I hope you like #s 10 and 11. Thousands of moms and teachers have already downloaded them and found happiness.
Ready? Let’s go . . .
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by Sharon Watson | Aug 21, 2016 | Encouragement, Sharon's Blog
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I was drowning. I needed help. My joy over homeschooling was robbed because I kept comparing myself to other homeschool moms.
My comparison battle
As a homeschool mom, I compared myself with other homeschool families. You know what I mean: reading levels and SAT scores of other children, (more…)
