Right-Brain Handwriting Experiment

It's been YEARS since I last posted something, but I'm really excited about my new project!


Since I've been working for over ten years in Special Ed. and I also have my art background, I've been playing around with a handwriting project. In my years of teaching, I've notice that handwriting is the one area that my students struggle with the most, it's the thing that they hate the most, and I, for the most part, cope with the problem and hope that my kiddos' handwriting will just get better on it's own.

NO MORE!

I wanted to use art to make handwriting practice fun for my kids. So, I've created a few products on teachers pay teachers (which is where most of my products are now.) But, I have some free items as samplers. My long term goal is to create an entire program/packet. I don't really know if what I'm doing constitutes a "program". I'm not scripting anything, but I probably will work out a script that I use on my own and publish it in the future. For right now this is just a set of worksheets that are CUTE, and I have categorized each set of letters by shape. There are circle first letters, pull-down letters, letters that use slant lines, and curved letters.

I've been having my students practice using Zaner-Bloser methods of letter formation, and right now I'm just focusing on lowercase letters, since those are what my students struggle with the most. I hope you like the samples. I'm going to be creating all of the letter worksheets and then putting it all together in a packet for my store, but here's a link to the samplers:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sampler-Right-Brain-Handwriting-circle-first-letters-2487698

And, as I always do on this website, here are some free posters (which are the same ones as are on my teacher pay teachers website.)

Thanks!

Teachers Pay Teachers

I just opened up an account at Teachers Pay Teachers. Many of the items on this blog will be on there. You can still access the posters here for free in their low bandwidth, jpeg versions, but you can pay to get them in the form of clipart or in pdf form which will give you a lot more options in terms of print size.

Please continue to enjoy the free posters. Some of my posters that were not my original idea will not be on there or will be on for free.

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Revised Poster -- Reading Routine

More Routines Posters

Reading Routine Poster - 1st draft

I've been wanting to create a poster for each groups' routine. This one is a very basic Reading Routine poster. It's the first time I've created each component of reading into a logo/pictorial representation. You can use the blank space to write in your objective or other content. I love it's simplicity, but I might work with this design some more.

Paragraphs

Here's another sandwich metaphor. Just like stories have a beginning middle and an end, paragraphs also have similar elements: the introduction, the body, and the conclusion.

The introduction introduces everyone to your topic. The Body is Where all of the good stuff is and supports the information stated in the introduction. Finally, the conclusion wraps up what you talked about in a way that the reader feels a sense of closure. It's a way of saying "The End" by using much more interesting wording than "The End".

I know I could really run with the idea of "The Sandwich", and I'm going to play with it for a while. In the meantime here's a poster to go along with this lesson idea.

Repost of Class Rules Poster

The blogs following again go with this poster: