It is too open-ended for many of them, and they find it overwhelming. Or, they end up drawing the same things every time, which eventually leads to frustration.
I revamped our writing workshop altogether this year. I wanted to set my students up to feel successful in writing, as well as provide them with scaffolded support in writing complete sentences.
I also wanted to incorporate writing to the picture, so they could focus on writing and not illustrating as well.
The pictures provide inspiration, and they just need to focus on creating a sentence to explain what they see.
Mondays are dictated sentences on the whiteboards. First, I tell them how many words the sentence will have so they can setup place holders for the words and finger spaces ahead of time. Then they try to write each word using our sight words and phonics strategies.
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I even let them use colorful pens on these days - it helps to motivate them!
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There are 50 different write to the picture templates with a variety of scenes.
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