Writing and Self Editing

My students LOVE building sentences with hands-on materials. We are also expected to use activities that can show progress, that are rigorous and that cover many differentiate skills at one time.

 

During center time, we use lots of different word tiles, word blocks and word puzzles to build sentences.

Hands-On Practice

 

 

I want my students to be independent with their sentence building, so for our centers and morning work, we use simple templates with many jobs to encourage skills that will transfer to their daily writing.

Here are so quick tips for engaging lessons:

1. Cut apart and arrange the words for a sentence.
2. Work with peers to encourage peer editing.
3. Encourage printing the whole sentence again and read aloud.
4. Illustrate the sentence to confirm understanding of the sentence. 

Do you have other ways to practice sentence writing in your classroom?

Thanks for reading!