The Not So WImpy Teacher creates resources for busy teachers in grades 2-5 who are looking to deliver engaging and meaningful lessons without overwhelm and chaos.
A surprisingly simple way to teach sentence writing to kids in grades 2-5 that will have your students crafting clear, concise, and compelling sentences in no time. This 2-week writing unit includes EVERYTHING you need!
Last updated on March 13, 2020 by Jamie Sears
Do you struggle to find time to teach writing? Do you find it a challenge to deliver lessons that help all of your writers? Would you like to learn a simple and effective way to teach writing? The Not So Wimpy Writing Masterclass is an online professional development course for grades 2-5. In this course, you will go from feeling overwhelmed to feeling confident and excited about teaching writing.
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Elizabeth
HI Jamie,
The process of Masterpieces for the mini lesson is very similar to what I have been doing this year.
Throughly enjoyed reading hte blog.
Thank you
Elizabeth
Sara Davis
I just used your wonderful videos for teaching opinion writing on google classroom. It was a 10 day course. Are you going to make any more? I’d love one for fictional writing for my first and second graders..
Cindy Wright
She just released a Fictional narrative one AND an Report writing Informational series! I bought them both!!!
Emily Hardeman
Thank you for your always very helpful posts. I am so glad I found your blog and products!
Emily
Kathy
Your writing videos for both Opinion Writing and Informational Writing are AMAZING! My 3rd grade students have grown so much through the use of these Google slides and videos. You break it down in such a great way and your enthusiasm in the videos is contagious! Thank you for all of your efforts and positivity!
Robin
Ahhhhh! Thank you for clarifying how you do writer’s workshop. That makes sense.
Stacy
I had a chance to use the opinion writing lesson plans during my student teaching. I loved that everything was broken down, however by the 3rd or 4th week the students were groaning. They didn’t want to work on the same piece of writing for so long. We tried offering other prompts or additional essays to give them a break, but I felt like they lost steam on their masterpiece. How do you keep them engaged and excited about the subject they chose?
Tina
This is one of the thoughts I have with starting the Personal Narrative Unit. Previous experience has led me down this same path when teaching writing. I find many students just don’t like to edit and revise the work and although I am super excited about using this unit I am also thinking of ways to try to avoid student losing enthusiasm.
I think Jamie also made a comment that really stuck with me about growth in writing. Writing skills are taught every year. Not every child will be successful at every skill but if we see growth in the writing then it should be celebrated! The more I praise and celebrate success with my students (use share time for this) the more enthusiastic they are to keep going.
Not So Wimpy Teacher
Exactly, Tina. We definitely need to focus on growth. Growth from beginning to end of a unit, from beginning to end of the school year, and from year to year.
Christy Kitzhaber
I am teaching first grade for the first time and am completely lost on how to make writing work here. Any tips for kids who have done very little writing?
Not So Wimpy Teacher
Christy,
My areas of expertise are grades 2-5 so I have little experience teaching first. Some of the same principals could apply like making sure to provide lots of time and opportunity to write. Obviously, the expectations will be different. I suggest finding a first grade Facebook group or other similar group to get suggestions from other teachers. I’m sure you could find some sellers on TpT that have great resources for first.
Emily
Thank you. I am homeschooling and this is helping my daughter.