I've said it before and I'll say it again... I LOVE teaching writing, but let me be honest and say that I only became comfortable with it when I was put in a 3-way split (reading, writing and math), and I became the writing teacher for the entire fourth grade class. Yikes! It was a shock to see the lack of writing skills these students possessed. This is NOT a reflection of the teacher they had before me, but it did allow me to see a flaw in the way we were approaching the act of teaching writing. My goal in this post is to break down the ways … [Read more...] about Writing in Three (3)