The kids store their sight word wall list, word collector, finger spacing "spaceman," handwriting chart, writer's idea book, trick word dictionary, and editing checklists inside the sleeves and pockets. We plan to add many more tools to their folders as I introduce more strategies for the planning, editing, and revising stages of Writer's Workshop. I am surprised by how much the kids enjoy using their folders. It seems that just simply having the folder open reminds them of the mini lessons and strategies that we've learned and they are more likely to use those strategies in their writing.
In a previous post I shared about the class word collector poster I use with my students to help meet our CAFE goal for "Expand Vocabulary." Students LOVE this tool and anticipate their turn in the free writing Morning Daily Five station (see previous post for morning word daily five cards). Students take out their Writer's Tools folder and record the words we've added to our class word collector poster onto their own word collector. I actually heard a little girl say to another little girl, "I am going to add forlorn and murmur to my word collector tomorrow morning!" That's something you don't hear every day! In the words of Kevin Henkes, "Wow! That's about all I can say. Wow."
Download the sight word dictionary I use with my students and add it to your own Writer's Tools folder. Let me know what you think!
Hi April,
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing your sight word dictionary you use with your kids. I use a similar idea and have the kids writing goals on the other side then I laminate them. However it was another thing to lose especially those children who seem to lose paper as soon as you have passed them out.
My new idea for this year is to have it stuck into the front cover of their book and with a blank one for those children who can proficiently spell, adding differentiation is a big push in our school.
This is a GREAT tool :)
ReplyDeleteUsed this last year with my special ed 3rd grade class that had a hard time with spelling during writing. love it, glad to have found it again.
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS GREAT!! Thank you so much for creating this and sharing it! I teach reading intervention and have had the hardest time finding a "sight word dictionary" on a single page. I love how you've used the color and arrows, etc., especially for my EL's. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteThank you! This is great :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I am using this in my elementary SPED class. Love this tool!
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