Spaces vs. spacemen

So, let me preface with the fact that I don’t usually like posters like this. I thought for sure my kids would start drawing little meatballs after every word. I used this poster to go along with the Lucy Caulkins “spacing words” mini-lesson. If you use something like this, I would reinforce to the kids that the punctuation only goes at the end. For the past few years, I have been using “spacemen”. As cute as they are, they are a distraction during writer’s work-shop. I thought I would try something different this year. Teaching students to space their words early on makes their writing much easier to read!


You can find a set of these spaceguys at ReallyGoodStuff.com