Want to keep the range of your students' writing skills fresh? A great way to accomplish this is to use our "Daily Quick Writes" - short focused writing activities to review and reinforce skills you've taught. Place a short revision exercise on the board each morning for a before school warm-up, send it along for homework, or pl...

Each month during the school year, Empowering Writers posts a writing lesson for narrative, expository and/or persuasive lesson plans on timely topics. A portion of these lessons are featured in Empowering Writers' monthly newsletter that is available through Facebook. To receive our FREE newsletter, click on the link to visit E...

Empowering Writers strongly believes in the reading - writing connection. As part of the Empowering Writers' methodology, using literature as a jumping off point is an effective way to improve student writing and reading comprehension. It's fun to use picture books for exciting seasonal writing lessons for elementary school stud...

Are you looking for a great writing lesson for test preparation? Click on the links below for suggestions on how students should use their last 5 minutes during a timed writing prompt. Using the Last Five Minutes - Narrative Using the Last Five Minutes - Expository These pages are included in our Writing Assessment Review resour...