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A perfect checklist for this case study class for students to self-check their writing skills.

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A great way for students and parents to keep track of weekly spelling words and how to study.

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This is a bit advanced for most of the class in the case study, but it is a great reference for students who can write at or above grade level.

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Teach students how to formulate a sequence in writing.

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This is perfect for Kindergarten to introductory 1st graders to teach spelling and letter shape. It also helps to improve fine motor skills and is great for kids who need more sensory stimulation.

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Play Dough Letters Spelling Activity - The Kindergarten Connection

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Kids of all ages love to work with play dough! What a fantastic tool we have for use in our classroom for a variety of learning activities. Today, we are excited to share with you a hands-on literacy activity for growing little minds into big readers!

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How to help students improve their handwriting... from teaching how to grip pencils to drawing.

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Students of all ages can use a little help with their handwriting. In the age of tablets and smartphones, more time is spent with single finger (or thumb) dexterity rather than whole hand uses like coloring, cutting, and painting. Holding a crayon, marker, or paintbrush (activities that are common precurosers for handwriting) just don't happen as often anymore.

So what can we do about it? How can we help our students improve their handwriting?

Here are ten effective ways kids can work on their handwriting skills:

Learning a proper pencil grip is important. If grip is a problem, try some of these ideas:

2. Make your own rainbow loom grip

Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, but practice does make progress. If your students are gripping correctly, then give them time for guided practice.

Do you have other strategies you like to use? Share them in the comments section below!

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10 Effective Handwriting Tips For Your Students

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Students of all ages can use a little help with their handwriting. In the age of tablets and smartphones, more time is spent with single finger (or thumb) dexterity rather than whole hand uses like coloring, cutting, and painting. Holding a crayon, marker, or paintbrush (activities that are common precurosers for handwriting) just don't happen as often anymore.

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This is great for Kindergarten to introductory 1st graders. A Thanksgiving themed writing prompt set. (This link is to a paid download.)

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Writing Rings November Edition is the perfect addition to your writing area during the month of November. Laminate the picture cards for durability and hole punch and hang each set in your writing area. Students can take a ring and a writing page and practice writing a word, sentence, or create a story. Each writing page has student friendly directions and are great to use for early finishers, extra practice, or writing workshop time.
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Writing Rings for Writing Workshop: November Writing Activities

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Writing Rings November Edition is the perfect addition to your writing area during the month of November. Laminate the picture cards for durability and hole punch and hang each set in your writing area. Students can take a ring and a writing page and practice writing a word, sentence, or create a ...

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Students can cut and paste words to create sentences. (This is a link to a paid download.)

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DIGITAL & PRINTABLE! If your students need more exposure to the Dolch pre-primer sight words, this might be helpful to you. This is a build, cut, and glue product with the first 38 Dolch pre-primer sight words. Students cut the sentence pieces, build the words into sentences, and glue the words next to the coordinating picture graphics.

I marked this resource as distance learning since the PDF portion is a print and go easy to implement product. Use as few or as many pages at a time as you like.

NEW: This resource is now digital! It is a no prep download! There are 39 digital pages that can be assigned to student devices for a no print, no cutting, and no glue resource. It is helpful to have the choice to use either format. YOU CAN CHOOSE HOWEVER MANY PAGES YOU WANT TO ASSIGN AT A TIME. After purchase go to the edit pages tab. There you choose the pages you want for a particular assignment. Save the changes and click assign to get a code you can use on Google Classroom. You can also add pages from the original version as well. Access & Use TPT's DIGITAL Activities Free Guide

There are two different title pages that are optional and can be used if you choose to have students staple the sentences into a "book". A follow up activity could be that kids can write the sentences they make each time they do the cut and paste part. It would be useful in a literacy center as well. I have included a handwriting page for that.

I hope you like this product. I use it for emergent ELL students, but it would also be very useful for kindergarten, first grade, and even second graders who are low readers. Use for early morning work, tutoring, even special education, and for at home learners. This works wonderfully for daily five activities since the students can work independently to complete.

I found that for the really low kids, modeling one sentence at a time really helps instead of having the kids cut up all the pieces at a time. My new ELLs have to have the modeling because their language skills are just developing.

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Making Sentences 38 Sight Words For Early Learners DIGITAL #Distancelearning

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DIGITAL & PRINTABLE! If your students need more exposure to the Dolch pre-primer sight words, this might be helpful to you. This is a build, cut, and glue product with the first 38 Dolch pre-primer sight words. Students cut the sentence pieces, build the words into sentences, and glue the words...

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A chart for students to color and study different blends and sounds.

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Perfect for beginning writers, students use pictures to prompt a CVC word. This can be used for seat work or even a class bingo game!

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6 tip top tips for teaching writing to first graders.

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It is tempting to write on a dry erase board, document camera, etc. Don't do it! Chart paper is perfect! I like to gather students around my easel. There are many advantages to using chart paper. First, it has lines so we can model correct letter formation. Next, it is large enough for all students to see easily. Most importantly, it preserves your work. I have had numerous times where I wrote something on the board and erased it, only to wish I had been able to access it again later in the year.

#3- Make copies of students work
Start keeping copies of students work (it can be a digital copy). When a student does something really great or their writing provides an opportunity for a teaching point, ask them if you can make a copy of it to use to help you teach writing. Keep a wide variety, and be sure to ask each student for at least one piece during the year (they will feel so proud!). The kids can learn SO much from other first graders work. It can be a great way to show students what "voice" sounds like, it is also great for revising and editing lessons. Here are a few things to keep in mind: Remove student names, especially if you are using it for a revising or editing lesson. Don't use work from students of the current year, unless it is to show something really wonderful, and you have their permission to share it THIS year.

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It is tempting to write on a dry erase board, document camera, etc. Don't do it! Chart paper is perfect! I like to gather students around my easel. There are many advantages to using chart paper. First, it has lines so we can model correct letter formation.

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Writing letters, rules, opinion/persuasive, different styles of writing. (link takes a bit to load you can download 36 pages of writing prompts!)

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Reading comprehension, learning descriptive words, group work, seat work, art, narrative writing

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Halloween writing activities wouldn't be complete without a few monsters, wouldn't you agree? We had a great time this week making and writing about some spooky creatures!

Read Aloud

We started out the lesson by reading aloud When a Monster Is Born

by Sean Taylor. This circle story begins with a tale about what happens when monsters are born and it was perfect for our lesson on adopting our own monster!

Another kid friendly monster book that works great with this lesson is The Little Shop Of Monsters by R.L. Stine. It's a cute book about going to the store to buy your own monster.

Interactive Writing

After we read the story, we talked about what monsters looked like. We worked together in interactive writing to create this chart with adjectives that describe monsters.

When we were finished, I told the students they would be able to adopt a monster of their own. I filled some trays with different patterns for bodies, eyes, ears, hands feet, etc and the kids could choose whatever they wanted to make their own silly monster.

Independent Writing Activity

We've been working on adjectives in our grammar lessons for the last couple of weeks. After they created their monster, it was time for the students to write their own list of adjectives to describe it.

Adopting Baby Monsters

Finally, it was time for the kids to adopt their monster as their own. The next day, the students made this little baby book about their monste r. They gave their monster a name, wrote about where it was born, it's first outing and it's "beastie" friends!

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Halloween Writing Activities - Firstieland

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Halloween writing activities wouldn't be complete without a few monsters, wouldn't you agree? We had a great time this week making and writing about some spooky creatures! We started out the lesson by reading aloud When a Monster Is Born by Sean Taylor.