Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star melody. Fingerspell every other letter.
Children Illustrate Their Sing, Sign, Spell, and Read Pages for Their Anthology Notebooks
Rehearsal/Memory Strategies:
• Sing or say the rhyme rhythmically while writing “b-e-c-a-u-s-e” (auditory)
• Then write “because” at least 3 times (kinesthetic)
• Hear the word in your ear. (auditory) Take a picture with your eyes (visual)
• Fingerspell the letters and create a design or draw a picture (kinesthetic and artistic)
You Will Remember the Opinion Writing Word “because” Forever
Encourage multisensory teaching and build left-brain visual images.
• Take a picture of the word with your eyes
• You can always fancy up your page
• Turn the page over and write the word from memory
• Build metacognition: What helps you remember new words?
Make Class Books or Online Slide Shows Featuring the Children Holding the High-Frequency “Heart Word” Fingerspelling Cards
“because” and “favorite” are “prolific writer” words!
Boys and girls, the reason we are learning high-frequency “heart words” is so we can become better writers and readers, so we want to work on them every day at school and at home.
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