Freak369's Full Review: Select Products Pathways For Learning SP 75 RediSp...
Sometimes the stranger things in life make me emotional; sappy movies, Hallmark commercials and the arrival of the new Lego catalog never fail to choke me up. Seeing a kid get excited about reading and writing is also something that gets me a little worked up. A few months ago Annabelle started a story about squirrels and penguins. OK, an unlikely pairing but even so she was determined to pull the whole thing together into a story. She was using loose leaf paper for most of it then started writing in some of the composition notebooks when she was satisfied with the rough draft. Someone suggested looking for Ready Space Storybook Paper notebooks, unfortunately I was misspelling it when I was looking for it online so I wasn't getting good results. When I did find it, it was backordered. I did manage to get it ordered through a local homeschool store and when Annabelle saw it she smile, grabbed her backpack and headed off to her room to brainstorm.
The correct name for this is "RediSpace Transitional Storybook Paper" so if you are going to look for it, please remember that it has a slightly different spelling than what you might expect.
If you've never seen products like this but have creative kids that like to write, this is well worth getting. It allows them to write out a moderately sized paragraph and add an illustration or photograph to the same page. These can be used to tell a long story or in Annabelle's case, to write down ideas that she has or if she wants to draw something out for the story. Loose leaf is great but the lines can get in the way of a drawing so having the blank box is a real perk. The pages have a three hole punch on the left side so they can be added to a binder or prong folder to keep them from getting lost or creased. There are margins on both sides of the sheet as well as a line at the top for a title or name so these can be used in a classroom setting as well as at home. Mead lists this as something for kids in grades one and up but it is something that older kids can use to organize ideas or if they are doing reports.
There are ten lines on the page and these are wide ruled so there is enough space for a moderate sized paragraph. If kids write too much for the ten lines you can add a piece of paper to it or they can write on the back. The only problem with that is if they use crayons in the blank box then go to write on the reverse side of the sheet, the lettering will leave indents in the image and that could ruin things. I love that this has wide lining for the writing section, this means that younger and older kids can use this to practice their writing skills, penmanship and even cursive writing. I know that a couple of years from now she will look back as these and probably want to burn them but it's all part of the learning process as well as learning to define writing skills and improve penmanship. Sometimes she can write so perfectly and other times it looks like chickens on crack got into some ink and started dancing on the paper. When she is writing on these sheets she does take her time with it so generally they look better than when she is writing on loose leaf or in a journal notebook.
Each notebook has fifty pages so there are enough to do a long story; if you get the bright idea to try and make photocopies of the blank sheets it won't work. The ink is blue and won't copy completely. This also presents a problem if you want to make copies of their completed work for a portfolio, you will get their writing and drawing but the lines may or may not show up depending on what you have the darkness set at. This is part of the Mead Writing Fundamentals series of products to encourage solid writing skills from an early age. Overall the sheets are easy to work with, a little thicker than standard loose left paper and are great for kids to express their creative side.
The homeschool store that ordered these for me priced them out at $2.50 per notebook; that is a little on the high side for a fifty sheet of notebook but the average selling price is about three dollars elsewhere. I lucked out having them order them for me, when I was paying for them a couple of people saw the box sitting there and ended up buying a couple of them so I am hoping that this will be something that they will stock all the time now.
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