Kindergarten Year in Preview in Writing

For use with: Lucy Calkins and Teaching Writing in Kindergarten

August (Themes/Ideas: School, Myself)

• Name writing
• Launching Writer’s Workshop
• Thinking of a topic, drawing and labeling

September (Themes/Ideas: Emotions, faces, bodies, Rules)

• Explicit drawing lessons (representing ideas in pictures)
• Guided Writing of short, simple sentences
• Writing word wall words in sentences

October (Themes/Ideas: Bats, Witches, Halloween, Pumpkins)

• Explicit labeling
• Guided Writing of longer sentences

November/December (Themes/Ideas: Snow, Winter, Turkeys, Holidays)

• Guided picture, independent writing
  • Prompt for lower writers
• Writer’s Celebration

January (Themes/Ideas: Revisit previous topics)

• Topics
• Independent writing

February

• Small moments
• Publishing books

March

• How tos
• Publishing books

April

• Writing for readers
• Conventions
• Publishing

May

• Poetry
• Publishing

June

• Memory books