For over 26 years, Empowering Writers continues to provide award-winning teacher resources. We help teachers by giving them everything they need to be successful with their writing instruction – including bilingual classrooms.
All of our comprehensive resources align with the required State standards.
Our Getting Ready to Write guide is jam-packed with lessons that will prepare your youngest writers for narrative, informational, and opinion writing, as well as age-appropriate research skills. This book focuses on awareness and understanding of the story and the genre, with age-appropriate lessons for your youngest authors. This guide comes with a set of K1 Activity cards in Spanish.
In an engaging, fast-paced ten minutes a day, students continue to learn how to construct sentences, recognize parts of simple sentences, parts of speech, grammar, and punctuation. During this time, we reinforce the essential characteristics of narrative and informational writing. Spanish HUB Sentence A Day Grades K-2 .
Our Informational & Opinion Writing Guides include all of the foundational informational and opinion writing skills. They also include strategies and lesson plans necessary for effective informational, opinion, and response to text writing.
A strong reading-writing connection is established throughout the guide, and offers multiple opportunities for deconstructing, analyzing, and annotating texts to prepare students to write in response to them.
The Narrative Writing Guide includes all of the foundational narrative writing skills for your students, and provides everything you need to be successful at teaching narrative, personal experience, and response to text writing.
Our new Editing & Revising Digital resources for Grades 3-5 include lessons that have been translated and adapted to align with all Spanish grammar skills found on State Assessments. These resources include digital lesson plans, Powerpoints, student activity pages, and pre and post-student assessments.
A Sentence A Day for Grade 2 is another phenomenal resource. In an engaging, fast-paced ten minutes a day, students continue to learn how to construct sentences, recognize parts of simple sentences, parts of speech, grammar, and punctuation. During this time, we reinforce the essential characteristics of narrative and informational writing.
The Student Writing Folders, available for Narrative or Informational, are a great reference tool and organizer all in one. When writing, students can refer to the suggested sentence starters to help build variety and interesting word choice in their writing. Then, they can store their work in progress in the handy pocket inside these brightly colored folders.