![]() They’re going to get frustrated, check out and most likely get naughty. Then there will be those students that will find that task too difficult. But for one group of students, it will be too easy, and they will get bored and when students get bored, they have a tendency to get naughty. finding a write the room that’s ‘right’ for everyone? There’s no question, regardless of the skill, it HAS to differentiated, because you know that if you put the same task out there at the same level of difficulty for every child in your class, it will be perfect for a small population of your class. As long as you have all their materials available where they can access them, you have modeled and they have practiced the activity and expectations, they will be fine, they will stay on task and they will be engaged. The first one is ‘letting go.’ The thought of letting five years old loose in your room unsupervised to complete a task is bone chilling. ![]() THE CHALLENGEįrom where I stand, though, there are two real challenges with Write The Room activities. You can decide whether you want those response sheets to be laminated to be used with a dry eraser marker, checked over quickly by a teacher and then erased for use by another student, or if you prefer, you can just make a regular paper copy to be submitted for a teacher to check later. I have enough clipboards and response sheets so that if I have four students at a math center for instance, there will be a clipboard and response sheet for each of those students. Teachers select the skill and level of difficulty that students will practice by selecting cards to post throughout the room. Using these activities during small group time keeps the movement managable. I like to offer lots of opportunities for students to get up and move and this does just this that. In my classroom, students may find this activity in their math or literacy center activities and occasionally in their morning work. In case you’re new to Write the Room, let me give you a quick little explanation of how it works. It’s like the ultimate, ‘spoon full of sugar’ making ‘the medicine go down.’ Except in this case, it’s the ‘write the room’ making the skills go down. ![]() When that happens, they don’t even realize they’re working. Not only do my students LOVE it, but even more importantly, I know that I can give them write the room activities that are meaningful and challenging on their own level. I know the idea of this puts some teachers into a complete panic, but I promise you, it shouldn’t. Write the Room activities are one of my most favorite activities to offer students, because I know that my students need to move and this gives them a free pass to wonder all around my room. These activities are great when you are introducing new words or when students need a reminder of the letters and patterns that make up each word. Sight Word Activities for Introducing Words Experts often call these words “heart words” to call out for kids that they should learn the unexpected word parts “by heart.” (If all this is unfamiliar to you, it can feel overwhelming, but you’ve got this! Check out teaching guru Jillian Starr’s explanation for more help.)Ĭheck out these low-prep and engaging sight word activities for both teaching and practicing words. Even irregularly spelled words have decodable parts, e.g., kids can use the sounds of “s” and “d” to help with “said,” even if the “ai” is unexpected. Many common words are easy to tackle using beginning phonics skills (like “at,” “can,” “him,” etc.), so staying true to a strong phonics curriculum is one way to support kids’ sight word learning. The science of reading tells us that linking sounds and letters is the most effective way for kids’ brains to learn any word. ![]() It’s a myth that blindly memorizing every letter in a sight word is the only way to learn it. Sight words are any words readers recognize automatically “by sight”-for fluent readers, that’s almost all words! High-frequency words, the most commonly occurring words in written English, like those on the Dolch list, are often thought of as the most crucial sight words. Teachers are always on the hunt for great sight word activities.
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