This is just to mention a detail about setting up dictee, one of the spokes of our Invisibles Star. It’s another great idea from Tina:
When we start dictée (a few months into the year usually) it’s hard to teach punctuation marks and the dictée process at the same time – the kids can’t absorb all the information about how to do a dictée while also learning the words for comma, period, etc. So one thing we can do is, when we do write and discuss (the in-class alternative to writing up the reading ourselves after the story) we can teach them then.