Kinder garden Writing

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Kinder garden Writing

• Planting the seeds for strong growth in reading
  and writing

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Interactive Writing

• Provides a format for which students learn how
  written language works.
• Gives the teacher the opportunity to share the
  pen with students while collaboratively
  composing and constructing a written message.
• Is an affective way for the teacher to model
  written language, and encourage independence in
  writing.

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Writingusing CAS

• Students focus on the content of their writing by
  illustrating their writing first.
• Students include a character/characters, action,
  and a setting in both their illustration and
  their writing.
• Use of CAS can be done in an interactive writing
  (teacher modeling) or with independent journal
  writing.

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Using the Cut-Apart Sentence

• Teaches concepts about print (directionality,
  spacing, one to one matching, attention to print)
• Helps young students make the reading/writing
  connection with a visual, hands on approach
• Gives opportunities for students to learn how
  words work

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Language Experience Charts

• Give students the opportunity to express thoughts
  in both spoken and written language
• Give students the format to record factual
  information with pictures, charts, and words
• Give the teacher a format to model the writing of
  words, sentences and stories.

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Graphic Organizers

• Help students compare/analyze information that
  they have learned using different formats
• Help students communicate/organize their thoughts
  before writing
• Can be completed interactively with kindergarten
  students

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Editors Checklist

• Gives students a way to evaluate their writings
  independently and during student/teacher
  conferences
• Helps to make the reading/writing connection (one
  to one matching, accuracy, and fluency)
• Visual component of the checklist provides
  students with a high level of support
  (scaffolding)

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Thank you for visiting our Kinder garden!
Teaching kids to write is hard. Thats because
writing is not so much one skill as a bundle of
skills We believe that a writing workshop
creates an environment where students can acquire
these skills, along with the fluency, confidence,
and desire to see themselves as writers.
Ralph Fletcher
Writing Workshop, 2001