Earlier this year I was thinking about how in First Grade, we typically teach spelling through rules. This is great, but I know that some of my kids were not linking this to their reading. Knowing how much they L.O.V.E. to use sticky notes, I created this mini book which I call the “Word Detective Book”. Each student has a copy of it in their book box along with a pad of sticky notes. When they are reading to themselves, reading to someone, or even listening to reading on the computer, they can get out a sticky note and search for different words by spelling rule. Here is an example of one of my student’s books:
If you would like to try this in your own classroom, I have it for sale at my TpT store. Check it out… it has cuter graphics than this one because I got them from Scrappin’ Doodles. 🙂
-Mrs. Patton
