Building Better Sentences - An Activity Book for Emergent Writers

This book helps Early Learners, including English Language Learners, improve their writing on iPad. They will learn new words; build background knowledge and make their simple sentences better by adding details. Learners use multimodal techniques to write such as typing, talking, or drawing and read their sentences out loud.

Download the Building Better Writers - Teacher's Guide below to learn step by step how to use the activity book.

Download the Building Better Writers - Student Template Activity Book below to share with your students using Apple Classroom.

Why use this activity with emergent writers?

  • Build background knowledge to learn vocabulary and understanding of the world around them. This writing activity begins by learners taking a photo to match a vocabulary unit of study. For example here we are learning about items we can find around the classroom. 
    Photo of a classroom with orange, blue, and green words around it to describing the picture.
    Students type, dictate or write with the drawing tool about the items seen in their picture. The teacher assesses students' background knowledge as they share their words, discuss the meaning of new words, and add more words to their page. Students color code their words to represent nouns, adjectives and prepositions.
  • Scaffold to providing temporary support for students as they learn new concepts or skills. The teacher breaks down a difficult task into smaller, more manageable steps and slowly reduces the amount of help allowing students to become more independent learners.
  • Good, better, best writing strategy teaches Early Learners and English Language Learners how to expand and elaborate their writing. Students demonstrate a stronger grasp of the topic and communicate their thoughts more effectively.

A boy and a girl with yellow construction hard hats holding a pencil and hammer standing beside a pile of bricks.

  • Blend learning to combine traditional classroom hands-ons activities with online or digital learning tasks. In this activity students write additional sentences using pencil and paper and create an audio recording reading their work.

Boy and a girl wearing yellow construction hats holding a pencil and hammer. Standing beside a pile of bricks.

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July 18, 2024

Such a great simple lesson for emergent writers! Thank you for sharing Katie!

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