Five For Friday: My 5 Favorite Tips and Tricks for Kindergarten Writing

Sticker Spacers 

Using stickers for spaces is a fun way to encourage making spaces in their writing!

Meatball Spacers

My students LOVE using meatball spaces. They really helped me teach students how to make spaces between words. I make them colorful and cute so the students get excited about using them. 

Having an alphabet chart in students writing folders is extremely helpful for sounding out words. I particularly like this one by Glitter, Glue, & Giggles because each letter has the word spelled out underneath. I often see students using this to write about the objects in the pictures.

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Kid Writing Rubrics

This FREE writing paper is available in my TpT shop. It allows students to assess their own writing. 

Writing Craftivities!

I LOVE writing craftivities! They are a fun way to mix art with writing. In my Christmas bundle I included 2 writing prompts with the Christmas present craft. The first, students draw and write about their Elf. In the next, students write differentiate needs and wants through writing, magazine clippings, and drawings. I print mine on colors paper or you can have your students color in a black and white present. 

Five for Friday: This Week's Favs

Working in an inclusion classroom this year has made me more mobile than ever! I find that I'm always pulling students and using different areas as I am now sharing my kidney table. Creating an RTI bucket has made this MUCH easier. Each week I change the manipulatives, books, and other materials in the caddy to match the needs of my students as well as the weekly objectives. This week, I'm reviewing all of my "must haves" inside my RTI caddy!

If you use Kid Writing I'm sure you already know all about Meatball Spaces! I use glitter pom poms because, well, everything could use a little sparkle! Students use this as a tool to make spaces between words. It's a fun, which makes students want to use them. Your students will never forget spaces between words again.. I hope... :)

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Alphabet beads are now my favorite Dollar Tree find. For now. With my intervention groups, we're working on letter matching and upper/lowercase pairs. This is a fun activity to reinforce these skills while also fine-tuning their fine motor skills! 2 birds, one stone!

Sometimes in kindergarten, making learning fun is the best way to help a struggling student. Writing is usually an area where students may feel the most apprehensive. To make writing seem less intimidating, I made a chalk table from an old table I found. There's something about the permanence of paper and pencil that can make children afraid of mistakes. Using a chalk table magically makes mistakes okay. Hey, I'll so anything to make writing less daunting!

We share in my classroom. It is a big part of our classroom rules. That is everything except my smelly markers. I LOVE MY SMELLY MARKERS! My coteacher used them the other day and I had a group of kids taletelling on her! Too funny! Anyway, for the record I do share my smelly markers with other teachers and students. I just make sure the students are with me when they use them. They're not always too kind to my marker supply. They also usually have marker under their noses from smelling them. These make for a GREAT incentive when working in RTI. My students LOVE highlighting with such "special" markers!

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