I know that they won’t last forever, but I also know that I can certainly just take out a marker and write a new letter on a new sticky note. So the biggest question is how long these sticky notes will remain sticky! And the answer is… I really don’t know, because I just started doing this a couple of weeks ago! But I do have an Elmer’s glue stick with repositionable adhesive, and this has been helping revive the notes when they lose their stickiness. I suppose that is probably normal for children that struggle with language arts! I was surprised that most of my second graders didn’t even notice that the letters were in alphabetical order.
They just have to remember to put the letter back down in the space that they took it from, of course! There were a few kids who couldn’t find a certain letter because they put a letter E down where the M should go, for example. It turned out to be a VERY efficient use of time! We built lots and lots of words in a short amount of time, and spent hardly any time searching for letters, etc. I have been using this with my intervention group of struggling second grade readers. You would NEVER be able to do that if the kids were just using little flash cards for the letters- they would get terribly mixed up!
Songs with the word build in it plus#
I was able to get SIX children PLUS MYSELF around a kidney shaped reading table and have us all build words at the same time, without a problem. If you already purchased it, email our office at to get an update.Īnother thing that works well with the sticky notes is that you can glue the base sheet that they are printed on down onto a file folder to keep each child’s notes all in one little compact space. We have just added this “Sticky Note Sort” file to our Sounds Fun Word Building Kit, but the price is the same ($5!) If you would like to purchase it, click here. If they can’t find the one they want, they just sing the alphabet song until they find it. I LOVE word building with sticky notes because the extra letters stay put in alphabetical order, and the children don’t have to spend so much time searching for the letters that they need.
Sticky notes are much cheaper than purchasing magnetic letters and trays, too, which would be the logical alternative. In this post, I am excited to tell you about a new idea I have been trying recently: word building with sticky notes! Did you know that you can print right on sticky notes with most printers? I was able to print the entire alphabet and all of the Sounds Fun digraphs and vowel pairs on the tiny sticky notes fairly easily.