Creating a Picture Dictionary (PM CLASS)

Many students in the class often ask me how to spell words while they are writing. I am tying to encourage them to use the resources in the room to help them spell common words. We also have picture dictionaries in the classroom but we thought it was more meaningful to create a dictionary based on things the students wanted to know how to spell (e.g., their names, activities and objects in the classroom). The students decorated an old scrapbook and I wrote the alphabet inside. The students took pictures of things in the classroom they wanted to include in the dictionary and they are being encouraged to think of more things to include. Below is a look inside our class picture dictionary.

The outside of our dictionaries

 We had so many pictures and words for the letter Ss, we ran out of room!!

 

the Ww page...some of our pages need more words!

**The AM class will begin taking pictures soon.