Since many of our students find writing difficult, making lists of things is a great way to get some writing practice without the pressure of perfect sentences and flawless paragraphs. Making lists also gives students the opportunity to focus on generating ideas. In the book, “Becoming Naomi Leon” by Pam Munoz Ryan, the main character keeps a vast notebook of lists. She lists everything from “Things I Am Good At” to “Superb Spanish Words”.
Here are some ideas for writing lists:
1. Emergent and Early Writers – Classroom Suite – I have created some list making activities; students can click on word buttons to make lists. Nu
mber buttons can add numeration and counting to the activity. You’ll find list writing in: Instructional Classrooms > Literacy > Writing > Write Lists: - Color List
- Green Things List
- List of Favorites
- Pet List
- Shapes List
- Zoo Animal List
2. Here are List Ideas for Intermediate Writers:
- Things I Am Good At
- Splendid words list – use the Dictionary & Thesaurus available in Word for this list
- Animals: categories of pets, zoo, farm, forest….
- Forms of Transportation
- Books I've read or Books I’d like to read
- Favorites: foods, places, things to do
- Places I've been
- Games I've played
- States
- Family members
- Movies
- Winter things
- Things I know how to do
- Names of pets
- Things I need to do before winter break (that’s the list I’m working on).
-Sheri
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