Introduce students to the charm of The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden with this elementary resource. Learners will engage in a series of TWR sentence and paragraph activities that support comprehension and help them build foundational writing skills while exploring this beloved story. This resource is designed for elementary students and is ready […]
Take your anticipated response—the answer key—to the next level by thinking deeply about key instructional moves and annotating with your students’ needs in mind. This resource offers practical tips for writing and annotating anticipated responses for student-facing TWR activities. Use it to ensure each activity is instructionally strong and supports clear, realistic, and high-quality student […]
This resource contains a list of expository writing terms.
TWR’s method rests on six basic principles. Download the list of these principles below and explore in-depth explanations of each one in our book, The Writing Revolution 2.0.
These mini posters offer a smaller version of the Grades 3–12 transition posters, ideal for individual student copies or small group activities. Grades K–2 have their own set of transition posters.
This poster displays a categorized list of transition words especially designed for students in Grades K–2. A Grades 3–12 version is also available.
This is the Spanish version of the 3–12 Transitions posters. A simplified version for K–2 is also available in both English and Spanish.
This is the Spanish version of the K–12 Question Words poster. This poster reminds students of the question words—Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. Use this poster to guide students as they complete sentence expansion activities, develop questions, expand unelaborated sentences, and more.
In this activity, students identify the topic sentence, then number the details in the correct order.
In this activity, students identify the topic sentence, then number the details in the correct order. This customizable template is also available in English.
