Worksheets

Worksheets are pages that include a specific lesson for a child to work on their skills within the classroom. They can come in a variety of different lessons and include multiple types of tasks. Some examples could be: puzzles, math questions, tracing of letters, and many other assignments. As like many other concepts within the classroom worksheets have their positives as well as their negative side when utilized. Some positive affects include building fine motor skills, encouraging independent thinking, and can be a tool to monitor a students current knowledge and abilities. There are also negative impacts that educators need to be aware of as well such as worksheets can not teach a student, worksheets do not encourage higher thinking skills, and they tend to be boring as students lose interest. I believe the answer to the question of whether or not to use worksheets is to use them in moderation. Their should be a healthy balance created in the classroom between a few worksheets and more hands on learning to create excitement, higher thinking skills, and knowledge retention. I believe it is important to not think of the worksheets as a lesson but rather as an enhancement tool to the lesson that is being taught by the teacher.

Below I have included an example of a work sheet that uses a puzzle to help with learning vocabulary words involving colors. I found it simple to use an online worksheet generator to input my word list and the program created the worksheet for me. The technology made it very simple to personalize each worksheet with specific information to enhance any lesson in a classroom.