Anyway, onto an actual topic. I took a few pictures of how I teach writing today and drumroll please - I am using my Mac tonight instead of my iPad, so typing is much faster and pictures are definitely available this time. Below each picture I will give a little info. I'm also going to try to include a worksheet I created years ago for journal writing. I don't know about you, but I HATE newsprint handwriting paper. It's too thin, it has an odd texture, and if you try to erase it always tears.
|These are the stickers we are using for our writing activity. I got them off of Oriental Trading. I'm including a link to the exact stickers. I order lots of these every year. My kids love them!|
|This is a picture of our Graphic Organizer. We did this on our Activboard. I do each of the questions in a different color. This way, if I'm helping one of my kids at their desk, I can tell them they need to work on the red question.|
These are two of the ways I teach writing to some of my struggling students. In the picture on the left, I used a mini dry erase board. Several of my kids can't copy from the board yet, so this really helps. I found these boards in sets of 4 at Target in the $1 section. In the picture on the right, this student sat with me and wrote his story. This student struggles a lot with handwriting, so after they finished their rough draft, I wrote it with a yellow marker and had him trace it. I kept the original for his file, but this allowed him to work a little more on his handwriting. Our occupational therapist told us last year it's best to use a yellow marker so that students can see their writing. I also have a student that can't write sentences on her own, so I she verbally tells me what she wants to write. As she tells me, I write it in yellow and then she traces it. The majority of my class just uses our graphic organizer, but I thought I'd share a few other ways that we differentiate writing in our classroom.
Once our final product is done, I will be sure to post a picture or two. Hope this was useful :)