Days gone by. . .

The Gillet chapter really took me back to my kindergarten days! One of my favorite parts of kindies was the writing. We used a "magic line" to get kids going even if they weren't sure of sounds and letters yet. They could use the magic line anytime they couldn't figure out any of the sounds of a word. When they read their writing to an adult, they would read the line the same way they would read any of their other words. Most of the time they did that for a day or two and then they were off and running with letters, even if they didn't correspond to any sounds.

But my absolute favorite part of kindy writing was using the document camera for "author's chair." The kids would take turns putting their writing up to be projected while they read it to the class. Even the quietest, shyest students and the most reluctant writers couldn't resist the lure of seeing their work on the big screen!