Teaching page · Grade 3 · Lesson 2

The red margin has a job

The red margin divides the page: numbering on the left, writing on the right.

What it is

The red line is not decoration. Everything you write stays to the RIGHT of it, and the space to its LEFT is for one thing only: the number of the problem you are answering. Keeping that column clear is what lets anyone find question seven without reading the whole page.

Watch it built

1
Find the red line. Your writing never crosses it.
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2
Put the problem number in the space to its left.
7 │
3
Start the answer just to the right of the line.
7 │ The bird sang in the tree.
Remember
Numbers to the left of the red line. Writing to the right. Always.
Ask yourself: “Which side of the red line does this belong on?”

Remember

Numbers left of the red line.

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