Great Idea - Use ELA Notebooks to Differentiate in the Classroom
The range of strengths and weaknesses in a typical classroom can be quite difficult. If you aren't careful, your students will generate so much paper (to grade and file!) that you won't be able to manage it. Here's my suggestion: Have an ELA Notebook for each child. Nothing fancy - I'm currently using "fast-teacher-made-special" notebooks, consisting of a long piece of bright construction paper folded in half and stapled as the cover for 20-ish pieces of notebook paper. When I taught 2nd grade, we used handwriting paper for the first quarter as a support/transition from 1st grade, and this was a fast way to help keep track of the loose papers for each subject. Credits: Mr. Magician , KG Fonts , Hello Fonts I know... it's really not going to hold a lot, so I encourage the kiddos to draw a line, date the entry, and then do their work, which can run over (neatly) to the page after that. Typically, these journals last everyone for a month or so, and...