Spacing With Marshmallows

We are continuing our unit on narrative writing this week.

This morning, I wrote my morning message without using spaces. The students could not believe how hard it was to read because they could not figure out where the words started and ended.  For your enjoyment, below was my morning message:

As a class, we re-wrote our morning message including spaces to make it easier to read. 

In writing, the kids enjoyed applying the importance of spacing to their writing. We used marshmallows as our spacers.

Please view a few samples of our writing below!

Notice the difference in her spacing from Tuesday (left side) to Wednesday (right side).

I really believe the marshmallows helped the students clearly see the importance of spacing in their sentences.