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
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