Sihil: A Writing and Cutting BUNDLE

Description

This Writing & Cutting BUNDLE includes THREE Products that were created to support distance learning through engagement with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Home Safari Program and to facilitate learning and meaningful conversation in families with children of a variety of ages!

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1) The WRITING PROMPT PACKET includes the following:

• A link to Sihil’s video
• A summary of the facts shared within her video, to review with your child in a way they can understand
• Questions to ask your child to facilitate learning and meaningful conversation
• 17 types of writing paper with various levels of adaptations and visual cues so that students across ages, grades, and abilities can participate: Just print the pages your child(ren) need!
• Two types of brainstorming pages, depending on your child’s needs
• Pictures to color
• Links to learn how to draw an ocelot, for higher-level/aged kids
  My students LOVE learning how to draw new things. With step-by-step directions, you’re likely to be surprised at just how well they do! Page 20 purposefully includes a blank space for children to draw a picture before they write!

  * Keep in mind: Students who are working on typing can still use fact summary and brainstorming pages with you, and then TYPE a 3-5 sentence paragraph based on the information they learned!

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2) The CUTTING LINES PACKET includes 12 pages that address the following skills:

• Snipping
• Cutting short lines
• Cutting 4″ lines
• Cutting 6″ lines
• Cutting 8″ lines

  Each page has varying amount of visual cues, depending on your child or student’s needs. Hopefully they will progress to requiring fewer and fewer visual cues as they develop their cutting skills, as well as their overall visual motor skills.

  TIP FOR USE >> Until further mastery, your child will have better success if pages are printed on cardstock. If you don’t have time to change out the paper or don’t have access to cardstock, no problem! I keep a stapler at my therapy table and quickly staple the pages to pieces of construction paper (when I don’t have cardstock nearby). The construction paper is at least thicker than regular copy paper!

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3) The CUTTING SQUARES & CORNERS PACKET includes 10+ pages that address cutting big, medium, and small squares, as well as cutting 90-degree angles/corners, outside of the context of a square. Pages have varying amount of visual cues, depending on your child(ren)’s needs.

TIPS FOR USE

1. Until further mastery, your child will have better success if pages are printed on cardstock. If you don’t have time to change out the paper or don’t have access to cardstock, no problem! I keep a stapler at my therapy table and quickly staple the pages to pieces of construction paper (when I don’t have cardstock nearby). The construction paper is at least thicker than regular copy paper!
2. Pages 11-15 can also be used with a writing utensil (colored pencil, crayon, etc), instead of with scissors! Those pages have multiple uses to target visual motor skills!
3. These activities can be easily graded down, by adding visual cues of your own such as bolding the dotted lines with highlighters or markers to increase the student’s visual attention and therefore precision, and/or to widen the margin of error.

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Please, please, please… let me know what you think. I’d love your feedback. Also, please share pictures of your children’s learning-in-action by tagging @ColorfullyEnthused and using the hashtag #thecolorfullyenthusedOT *

* DO NOT SHARE COPIES OR ATTACHMENTS OF THESE PRODUCTS WITH FRIENDS, FAMILIES, OR COWORKERS *

Thank you so much, and enjoy!