Superhero Pow

Right now in therapy we are working on editing sentences. My kid tends to leave out punctuation and capitalization. He also doesn't differentiate between a sentence and a full story. In order to make him aware of his capital and punctuation errors, I have him do checklists after he writes stories.

Yesterday I copied his writing sample and cut it into sentence strips. This way he is able to edit his own story in his own handwriting. First, I had him read his story out loud. Then, he had to guess which sentences were actually sentences and not just run-ons or just phrases. Finally, I gave him the checklist and he had to be the capitalization & punctuation detective.

Here is the checklist I made:

I originally got this idea from pinterest, specifically from an anchor chart for "superhero swag" but I didn't really like the swag part of it. He was really cute when I explained the checklist to him. We both did the pow gesture and then, at the end, I asked him if his story had pow and he said, "Double pow! Pow pow!"

Roll, Write, Rewrite

I got this idea on pinterest. I saw that someone had made a roll and revise sentence dice game here: thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com. But, since it is not age-appropriate for my kiddo, I decided to tweak it a bit for my lesson this week.

One of my goals for this semester is to have my client write accurate and complete sentences within a narrative. After evaluating the three writing samples that I collected the past two weeks, I realized that he typically leaves out punctuation, capitalization, and cohesive devices. For this lesson, I really want to focus on the punctuation and capitalization. I also added in some long vowel pattern and past tense -ed spelling errors to see if he could catch them. 

First, I made sentence squares. Each square has three sentences that are incorrect. I'll cut the sentence squares out after I print them and glue them onto an empty Kleenex box. 

Examples of inaccurate sentences

After the kid rolls, he will correct the sentence that he lands on. First, he will go through and mark everything that is wrong. Then, we will check to make sure he has all the errors marked. After that, I'll give him a fill in the blank worksheet so that he can fix the errors without having to write all the sentences out again. He hates writing so I figured that I would limit the amount he has to do with this activity. We might not get through all the sentences in one day so it would be a nice carry-over activity.

Fill-in-the-blank editing worksheet