How to implement Writing From Boxes

1. Display the sentences from boxes sheet at the front of the room or give each student a copy. Explain that students will use these boxes as a tool to write sentences.

2. Model writing a sentence for the students. Show them how you start each sentence with the frame on the left (I see the___). Write that frame on a separate piece of paper. Then you write the color (blue). Next you find the shape that is that color and write that (rectangle).

3. Show students the whole sentence: I see the blue rectangle. Read it as a class.

4. Then guide the students in using the boxes to write a sentence on their own paper.

5. Finally, have the students work in pairs to write their own sentences. 

6. Have students continue in this manner until they’ve written sentence for each of the colors and shapes.