Kindergarten Writing Workshop

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Kindergarten Writing Workshop

• Reidy Creek School
• Kindergarten

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Welcome

• What we will cover Tonight.
• District writing standards
• Stages of young writers
• How we teach writing in school
• How to help your child at home
• What is in the Writing Tool Kit

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EUSDs Writing Standards For Kindergarten

• At Grade Level by June
• Writes at least one sentence or several pattern
  sentences
• Uses early-phonemic spelling(beginning and ending
  sounds)
• Uses some short vowel sounds within words
• Writes left to right and top to bottom
• Some correct capitalization and punctuation
• Leaves spaces between words
• Writes readable letters
• Is able to read their writing, pointing to each
  word

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EUSDs Writing Standards For Kindergarten

• Above grade level
• Writing two or more non-pattern sentences
  relating to one topic
• Using some standard spelling of high-frequency
  words
• Spaces between all words
• Most words have a vowel sound represented (80)
• Most sentences have correct capitalization and
  punctuation (80)

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Stages of Writing

• Your child went through several necessary stages
  in the development of oral language cooing,
  babbling, and playing with sounds. Similarly,
  written language development follows predictable
  stages. These are the stages your child will
  probably go through as he or she becomes a
  competent writer.

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Stages of Young Writers

• Scribbles and Pictures

A flower is growing.
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Stages of Writing

• Precommunicative
• Your child may now be printing his or her own
  name or an occasional known word and may be
  writing strings of letter-like forms or a series
  of random letters. Sometimes he or she may
  attempt to read the message back, but you
  probably can't read it.

There are webs in Spidertown.
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Stages of Writing

• Semiphonetic
• At this level, your child begins to use some
  letters to match sounds, often using one
  beginning letter to write a word. He or she
  usually writes from left to right but may reverse
  some letters.

I have a goldfish called Arielle.
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Stages of Writing

• Phonetic
• Now your child writes most words using beginning
  and ending consonant sounds and spells some
  frequently used words correctly. He or she may
  begin to add vowel sounds, but they are often not
  the correct ones. At this level, your child may
  begin to leave spaces between words. It's
  getting easier to read your child's writing

I found a lamp and a genie came out.
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Stages of Writing

• Transitional
• At this level, your child is writing words the
  way they sound, representing most syllables in
  words. Now your child usually leaves spaces
  between words and is spelling many words
  correctly as he or she writes more than one
  sentence.

Once upon a time, there was (were) four
butterflies. They went on an adventure in the
woods.
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Stages of Writing

• Conventional
• At this level, your child spells most words
  correctly, although he or she may use
  phonics-based spelling for advanced words.
  Remember, we can only expect children to
  correctly spell words they have already learned.
  Now your child is usually using capital and
  lowercase letters and periods and question marks
  correctly.

Dear Blue Ranger, Why do you fight? I see you on
TV. You are the best. Why do you go to the
command center? Why are you on Fox Kids? I
like your show. Are you my friend? Love, Alex

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Stages of Writing

• Traditional
• Advanced writers use a rich, varied body of
  written vocabulary. They may still use
  phonics-based spelling for advanced words, but
  have mastered the spelling of commonly used
  words. At this level, your child uses quotation
  marks, commas, and apostrophes correctly and
  usually organizes writing into appropriate
  paragraphs.

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How we teach writing in the classroom

• Morning Message
• Shared Writing
• Modeled Writing
• Directed Writing

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How to Help your child at home.

• Encourage your child to express ideas and
  emotions by writing them down.

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How to Help your child at home.

• Don't worry about correct spelling.
• Except W.O.W. words.

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How to Help your child at home.

• Encourage your child to read her own writing.

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How to Help your child at home.

• Show your child how YOU write.

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Writing Tool Kit

• Journal
• Use the journal to let your student express him
  or herself. They may write on whatever topic
  they would like. Make sure they are doing the
  writing, and sounding out their own words.

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Writing Tool Kit

• Alphafriend Sound Card
• The sound card helps remind your child what
  sound each letter makes, and who the Alphafriend
  is that goes with that letter. Have your student
  use this card when sounding out words.

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Writing Tool Kit

• Writing Checklist
• After your child is finished writing, go over
  these things with them make sure they have
  capital/ lowercase letters in the correct spot, a
  punctuation mark, spaces between words, two
  non-pattern sentences and that they can read it
  back to you. These are the writing requirements.

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Writing Tool Kit

• WOW
• Here are the WOWs (Word of the Week) that your
  student has been learning. These words can help
  them in their writing, They should know how to
  spell all these words by the end of the school
  year.

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Writing Tool Kit

• Pencil
• Let your student enjoy their special pencil.
  Limit their amount of using the eraser.

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Writing Tool Kit

• Spaceman
• This is the tool we use in the classroom to
  remember that we need spaces in between words.

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Questions
E-mail mtillyer_at_eusd4kids.org
debrown_at_eusd4kids.org www.kinderpups.net
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Thank You For Coming Tonight
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