Let's Write: Tools and Strategies to Support Struggling Students

Spelling, sentence construction, paragraph writing, and more. Three booklets filled with visual cues that will help struggling students. Perfect for small group discussions or as reminders to place on student desks. What's included?

SPELLING

• Beginning Sounds Cue card featuring the alphabet with an illustration for each letter sound.

•Sound Out Boxes Help students understand sound segmentation. Encourage students to use their finger to "tap out" sounds and spell independently.

•Spelling Tricks to Try Illustrated cue card featuring a list of 7 strategies for struggling spellers such as "using their mouth to sound out", "use your hands to tap out.." etc

•Alphabetized Sight Word Cards An alphabetized list of common words. Easy access tabs on the cards will help students search independently for words they want to spell.

•Categorized Word Lists Lists of words based on common categories including colors and shapes, feelings, foods, body parts, and "on-the calendar" (days, months and special days).

•Friendly H Cue card illustrating "H" diagraphs.

•Bossy R Cue card illustrating how the letter "r" changes the vowel sounds

•Magic E Cue card illustrating how the silent e makes the vowel say it‘s name.

•Long and Short Vowel Cue card featuring words and illustrations.

•Vowel Pairs illustared cue card featuring the pairs au, ai, ae, ee, ie,oa, oe, oi, oo, ou, and oo."When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.”

•Vowels Pairs and Mouth Shapes A variety of cue cards illustrating pairs that make similar sounds with accompanying sound mouth shape clip art.

•b and d reversal Visual cue to use as reminder for students who typically reverse these letters.

•p and q reversal Visual cue to use as reminder for students who typically reverse these letters.

•Memory Tricks cue card encouraging students to use mnemonic devices to recall spelling of difficult words.

SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION and EXPANSION

•Super Sentence Hero Chart Visual cue featuring a blank chart encouraging students to use "wh" strategy (who, did what, when, where) when writing a sentence.

•Super Sentence Expanded Chart includes space for adjectives

•The WH's a cue card illustrating the meaning of each "wh" question word

(i.e. people and characters for who, places for where etc)

•Expanding Sentences Using WH sample sentence with illustration

•Expanding Sentences Using Conjunctions illustrated card with sample sentences for “and” “if” “because” “after” “either” “or” “but” “as soon as” “unless”.

•Parts of Speech (Nouns and Verbs) Illustrated cue card to use as reminder.

•Parts of Speech (Adjectives and Adverbs) Illustrated cue card to use as reminder

•Parts of Speech examples Chart with several examples of each component. Helpful for students with word retrieval difficulties.

•Punctuation Cue card featuring bolded red punctuation marks with a short explanation and sample sentence.

•Interactive Sentence Checklist Encourages self monitoring and self correction. Can be used with detachable checkmarks (with Velcro) or as printable list.

PARAGRAPH WRITING

• Paragraph Parts Different ways to say: Facilitate discussion about terms typically used. For example, the introduction can also be called the “beginning” or the “topic sentence”

Paragraph Parts Hamburger Visual: Facilitate discussion about paragraph components.

Paragraph Parts the Traffic Light Visual: Facilitate understanding of the different actions needed when writing a paragraph.

Paragraph Parts “On Five Fingers” A strong paragraph is made up of 5 components. Visual of the hand with “opening” “supporting Detail” (3x) and a “Closing”. Great for incorporating a kinesthetic feature to your lesson.

 3 cue cards to help students understand and recall parts of a paragraph (introduction, 3 details, conclusion)

•Topic Sentence Card: List of sentence starters

•Adding Details Card: List of Sentence Starters

•Conclusion Card: List of Sentence Starters

•Links at a Glance: Chart with transition words organized by function “introduction” “Sequence” “Support Details” “Add More” and “Conclusion”

•Talk It Out Strategy: Visual Cue featuring sequencing words.

•Talk it Out Strategy2: Visual Cue featuring transition/linking words.

• Draw It Out Strategy: Model graphic organizer. Encourage students to create one when they are struggling to come up with ideas.

•Support Word Retrieval Difficulties With a helpful cue card featuring an illustrated list with 4 different suggesting for remembering a word or a detail.

Writing Process Timeline / Pacing Tool picture schedule that includes a detachable arrow. Students can manipulate as they move through the writing process (“think” “write", "edit” “illustrate” “publish”). Use this visual to encourage reluctant writes and to facilitate discussion about editing and revising.

•Interactive Paragraph Checklist encourages self monitoring and self correction. Can be used with detachable checkmarks (with Velcro) or as printable list.

•Editor Bracelet Printable bracelets (a variety of color choices) will serve as a motivating self-monitoring tool either on a student’s wrist or taped to a desk. It lists important elements to consider when editing. The bracelets can be stored in a handy pocket.

Each File includes an interactive table of contents clickable links to help navigate the document. Laminating suggested. Velcro needed for the interactive portion.