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Find writing opportunities that strengthen home–school connections. For example, encourage families to create books at home related to a particular theme or a specific topic. Invite children to share their books with the class and then add them to the library. Invite families to share the types of writing activities their children engage in ...
- Help children make their own books. Homemade books are a great way to practice literacy skills and preserve memories of special events such as field trips or a fun family outing you took earlier this year.
- Make literacy-related prop boxes. Prop boxes are themed dramatic play activities bundled together in a decorative box. Great for use at home as well as in classrooms, they typically include a few books related to a theme, puppets or other toys children can use to help reenact the stories, and props such as paper and markers to help kids practice literacy skills as they play.
- Give favorite play areas a literacy infusion. Take note of where your kids like to play the most, and include literacy-related items and props in those areas.
- Have extended responsive conversations. Children’s language skills are enriched and expanded when adults engage them in back-and-forth conversations that extend over multiple turns and encourage the child to play an active role.
- Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings. Available from: Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Bookshop. Target. Walmart. Children will fall in love with Arfy, a sweet, homeless dog who wants a forever home.
- Dear Dragon: A Pen Pal Tale. by Josh Funk, illustrated by Rodolfo Montalvo. Available from: Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Bookshop. Target. Walmart. For a school project, George becomes pen pals with Blaise.
- Ten Thank-You Letters. by Daniel Kirk. Amazon. Apple Books. Barnes & Noble. Books A Million. Google Play Store. Kobo. Pig is busy writing a letter to his grandma about the weather when Rabbit comes to visit.
- Dear Dinosaur. by Chae Strathie, illustrated by Nicola O’Byrne. Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Bookshop. Target. Walmart. Max has questions about dinosaurs so he writes a letter to the museum’s T. Rex.
interest areas so children can refer to them easily while writing. Read alphabet books and add them to the library and other interest areas. Some alphabet books with story lines are used for group reading, and other alphabet books are shared one-with-one. Research indicates that use of alphabet books in the classroom
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Sharing the pen with young children means that you are writing (scribing) most of the message, while asking children to help with small parts of the message. A teacher could ask a child to write one letter, hold their hand on paper for a space between words, write a word they know (like mom or dad), or write their own name.
We love using mentor texts in the classroom to showcase a special skill for our students. This list is filled with mentor texts that model writing a friendly letter. There are even books on the list that make cross-curricular connections with science, social studies, and art. Have fun sharing these books with your students.
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Here are a few ways to make shaving cream letter writing work in your classroom: Have students write their name in shaving cream (have them look at their name tag for reference) Have students write letters they know; Call out a letter and have students write it; Call out a letter sound and have students write the corresponding letter
