While MariAnne met with the guided reading groups, students worked at their desks on a variety of tasks: (a)
handwriting practice sheet, (b) spelling, (c) journal entries, (d) dictionary skill — using guide words, (e) writers» workshop and family story preparation, and (f) Internet searches related to authors and illustrators
[15] In some of her early pieces, she painted and drew on
sheets of penmanship paper (ruled paper used for
handwriting practice) she had pasted onto canvas.