My students are welcome
to use any of these tools to aide in their writing. There are guidelines for each, and they were
introduced and added to the toolbox one at a time.
The container is simply a shower caddy I picked up at WalMart. (I used it for all of my overhead supplies for a few years-- but when we got document cameras, it was time to repurpose it.)
Stencils are a
great tool. These are some from Dollar Tree.
They choose ONE picture, trace it, write about it, color it, and then finish the
illustration. Stencils are great
because it is easy to have variety, they are inexpensive, and don’t take up a
lot of space.
One last kind of
stencil- these are paper stencils.
Another thing I put in is self-inking stamps. They change based off the holiday. (What first grader doesn't want to write about Halloween or Valentines Day?)
I found some awesome picture/word banks online. I printed, laminated, and put them out. (I change them randomly.)
My students have
journals that they write about their lives, activities, etc. Their journals
change- in the Fall, they have one line to write on. In the Winter, they are half a page of lines,
half a page for a picture, and in the Spring they are half a page for picture,
and then one and half pages for writing.
They also have a
notebook (my class last year named it their “Thought Spot”- because it was their
place for writing their thoughts). If
they have a minute during the day, they pull it out and write. It was unbelievable to me last year how much
my students would write- and LOVED to write because they had it as a constant choice.
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