Over the past five years, I've found that children have made many similar errors within their writing - the same sort of errors I see even adults making. After constantly repeating myself on some of these common errors, I decided to make a display to refer to when I do it!
I've gone for a 'gears' theme as I like the idea of these little errors being the ones that get on people's nerves - so they really grind your gears (I've considered sound effects for when they happen!). The gears each have the common errors on them and I'll refer to the display during lessons, particularly writing lessons.
For now, I've only put up eight gears but I have a whole load more ready and waiting to join the display and I have an editable file on my computer should anything else crop up. The ones I've chosen to put up so far are the ones that I've found to be the most frequent mistakes over the last five years.
If you'd like this display, visit my TES page to download the file. I've included a PowerPoint and a PDF version. The PowerPoint allows you to edit the gears but some of the formatting may be off with the text if you do not have the same font installed on your computer.
Signing off!
The Yorkshire Teacher
Hi - where do you find the time to Blog alongside teaching!? I was actually looking for some Crime & Punishment ideas for my Year 6 class and came across your plans and some of your resources. I was wondering if you would be able to send me any more resources you wouldn't mind sharing. I've got quite a bit of info on the history of crime and punishment, especially of our local police force (Thames Valley), but would love some resources for your Wow week.
ReplyDeleteI was also delighted to find these gears - these will go up in my classroom over half term!
My email address is tim.jackman@woolhamptonschool.org
Many thanks