Today I have an easy writing center idea for you. If you are like me you probably have several old greeting cards hanging around. Don't toss them in the recycle bin just yet! I have a fun way for you to repurpose them. Cards with cute, funny, or interesting pictures on them can be great story starters for your students. All you have to do is cut the words off the front of the card. Here are a few examples of cards I decided to use. I trimmed the cards so that all the wording was off.
Next, glue a piece of card stock inside the greeting card to cover all the writing. On the card stock I wrote words that students might need help spelling if they were writing a story about the picture on the cover. You could also add story prompts on one side of the card and word spellings on the other. I want to use the cards as story starters for creative writing so I opted to not use any prompts, but I could always add them later. Here is a picture of the inside of some of the finished cards.
I hope you enjoy today's writing center idea!
