I realized that I needed to increase our writing in the classroom, so I have started to do predictable charts. We are using the book "Look Up!" from October's Elementary Unique Learning System. We were working on the sight word 'see' so they had to use see in a sentence about what they saw in the book.
Day 1 - Each student dictates a sentence to me from the book. I write it on chart paper, and we will read all the sentences together and then try and find the item in the book.
Day 2 - I have typed the sentences and printed them off. Each student will then cut the sentence up, we will recreate the sentences, read them, and then repeat. (you can see the cut up sentence in the second picture at the bottom of the page)
Day 3 - I photocopy extra copies of the book and the student then needs to find the picture that matches their sentence. We then write out our sentences in a class book, paste the picture and add our cut up sentence to the page. Our Title Page:
A page from our class book:
From Predictable Charts we moved on to creating personal books. I found Carson Dellosa clipart that matched the vocabulary words from the book "Look Up!" so I created a book for each student so we could practice using sight words and vocabulary words to create books to take home.
This was the title page and students had to add their name as the author.
While doing this activity we started to use our "Word Book" to look up words to know how to spell the various vocabulary words. I will write a post about the visual supports that my students are learning to rely on.
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