Category: Writing

Open Court Reading

Writing About Dreams

Here’s a fun activity for teaching creative writing at any grade level. It aligns particularly well with folktale units (folktales, sharing stories, storytelling) but can be adapted to other units as well. Special thanks to …

Open Court Reading

Teach Units, Not Stories

I’ve been noticing that a lot of teachers get bogged down by individual stories in the Open Court units and miss the big ideas of the units. While you do need to teach the stories …