Idea Comes to Life!

Last summer I submitted an idea to Really Good Stuff. I seriously I have not thought much about it since. Until NOW!!! I received this letter and package today!! They put my idea into production and I can't even tell you how excited I am!!

 Here's the letter! Woo hoo! 

Here it is in the catalog! 

 Here it is in real life!

I am such a geek, but I really can't wait to tell my students about this process and show them the final product. So here is the backstory:

I attended the Reading and Writing Workshop at Columbia University last summer. The presenter suggested cutting clear Contact paper into strips so students could mark their own words in books. I love that, except clear contact paper is harder to find than you might think. I had the idea to put strips of regular highlighting tape on cards to give my first graders. It worked fine, but not great-and it was A LOT of work. So I submitted the idea to RGS when they ran one of their contests. It has been almost exactly one year. 

How to use these:

to mark word families

to mark punctuation

to mark compound words

to mark nouns and verbs (different colors)

to find certain letters

to find suffixes and prefixes

to mark important fact

to highlight a specific text feature

to mark confusing/exciting/scary parts

to mark the big idea

to mark an unknown word

I could go on and on! These are perfect size cards to slide into their just right bag (you could even cut them in half!) so students have ownership of them. They will be so excited after seeing you model how to use them! How much? $9.99. Come see for yourself! Click on the pic to visit Really Good Stuff!

I am feeling a giveaway coming really soon! Happy weekend!