1. Welcome to ILA Individualized Language Arts Brought to you by
Deborah Johnson and
Penny Arnold
GTPTs at Hays STEAM Academy

2. Austin’s Butterfly

3. We’re going to learn to cut and paste kids!!

4. What we want kids to experience.
If I can think it, I can say it. If I can say it, I can write it. If I can write it, I can read it. The more I write, the better I read. The more I read, the better I write.

5. Techniques 1 Techniques- use higher order thinking skills
are differentiated for individuals and content
are interactive
are intended to allow the students to have more control of their learning.
Reading, writing, listening and speaking, and thinking skills are highlighted. 1

6. Tom Smith called Sarah Lou is here
Tom Smith Punctuation
Tom Smith called Sarah Lou is here 13

7. Answers
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8. 3 Types of Sentence Tic-Tac-Toe1

9. Write 7 sentences with dogs in 1st, 2nd, etc. positions.
Dogs are man’s best friend.
Five dogs make life very interesting.
Cute, fluffy dogs…

10. Write sentences from given sentence.
Dinosaurs
are
found
throughout
areas of
Texas.
have
been in
twenty
states.
All sentences can belong to the same theme or concept.

11. Designate that sentences begin with certain parts of speech.
Noun…
Verb…
Adjective…
Adverb…
Pronoun…
Preposition…

12. Sentence Combining The Chicken
A man lived in a farmhouse. He was old. He lived alone. The house was small. The house was on a mountain. The mountain was high. The house was on the top. He grew vegetables. He grew grain. 2

13. Wet-Ink-Writing
This is a great way to assess prior knowledge or just get kids excited about what’s coming.
“Mystery” 3

14. Writing Roulette 4

15. Musical Writing 5

16. Tryptic Writing Flip Books6

17. Sentence Slotting
The man cried. 7

18. Up words, down words, in words, out words8

19. Stories Told With 26 lines A-Z
At Hays STEAM Academy
Blaberus Discoidalis are
Cared for. D E
Etc. 9

20. Cubing 10

21. Describe It

22. Compare It

23. Associate It

24. Analyze It

25. Apply It

26. Argue for/against it

27. Hexagonal Writing

28. Description

29. Personal Association

30. Literary Association

31. Analyze It

32. Apply It

33. Evaluation

34. Parts of Speech Activities
Mad Libs
Chaos in Puctuatio
Jabberwocky 12

35. Ratiocination 14

36. [The] dogs were were funny.
[The] people laughed at the dogs

37. Sharing of Writing Strategies
All attachments can be found on our school websites. 15

38. SEE 16

39. Owl Moon 17

40. Sources
For your viewing pleasure, our sources for this session are located on the back table.