Writing Tool: Flaps

One of our goals for making our writing easy to read, is giving ourselves enough space on the page to write our sentences.  Sometimes, even if we plan it out, we run out of room.  To solve this problem, I introduced flaps during a writing lesson.  Students looked back through their writing to find places where they had run out of room.  They re-wrote their sentence on a flap and taped onto the page where they needed more room.  This was a great editing tool!  

Now when they write new books they can use a flap if they want to add more writing but there isn't more room on a page.