We use our personal marker boards every day for organizing ideas, working out problems, playing games, and writing sentences. Our marker boards are inexpensive, low-tech classroom resources. So, what's the problem? We need dry-erase markers to use with them!
My urban middle school students, many of them English Language Learners, begin the year reading years below grade level.
My students are hard-working and cooperative. We read and write every day. In our multi-grade Language Arts class, we work hard on basic literacy skills to prepare for high school success.
My Project
Our personal marker boards are created from sheets of building material cut into 1-foot squares by a local building supply store. We use them every day. When we are working with a new language structure, students create original sentences on the boards and hold them up to share. When we are playing games, students in pairs and groups record their answers on the boards. We use the boards to organize ideas for writing essays and for generating solutions to problems.
Our marker boards help us conserve paper. With a quick swish of a dry cloth, the boards are ready to reuse again and again. They are a fantastic classroom resource, but they don't work without dry-erase markers. Unfortunately, our district is running out of money and our future marker supply is now uncertain.
These little marker boards make learning fun!
My students enjoy trying to outdo their classmates by crafting the most entertaining sentences and sharing them with the class. There is nothing fancy or high-tech about our homemade marker boards; they simply work for my students. A donation towards dry-erase markers will allow us to continue to use them even when all the district supply money has dried up.
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