Description
Support your striving and beginning writers with kindergarten writing in a developmentally appropriate way. Students will learn and practice foundational early literacy skills to support their writing development. Writing can be the toughest time of day for some students because there is so much that is involved, brainstorming, planning, writing, drawing, etc. When students struggle, we need to meet them where they are. This product will help them learn to draw with more details, add labels to their writing, and dictate a story to an adult.
Additionally, when students struggle with writing, they often aren’t able to write for the full block of writing time. Included in this product is a writing choice board for students to choose from different foundational writing skills. This will support students to be more independent and successful in their writing while filling in any missing literacy gaps they may have.
These writing small group activities work well in conjunction with any writing curriculums and will support you, not only meeting your standards but will also support your students where they are in their writing development!
This writing small groups activity for kindergarten writing gives you everything that you need to increase engagement in small groups, target writing support to exactly what your students need, and visual reminders to keep your kids improving while writing independently.
What Do I Get in the Kindergarten Writing Product?
- Teaching tips and strategies
- Visual goals for the group
- Printable sticky notes to give to each student as a goal and reminder of the skill you are working on
- Kindergarten writing checklists
- Kindergarten writing choice board
- Kindergarten writing paper with goal included
Kindergarten Writing Teaching Points Included:
- I can add labels!
- I can draw detailed pictures!
- I can use lots of shapes in my pictures!
- I can write the first sound I hear!
- I can tell my story to an adult!
- I can work the whole time!
Kindergarten Writing Choice Board Activities Included:
- Fine motor
- Handwriting
- Drawing
- Wiki Sticks
- Read it, Write it, Make it,
- Roll, Read, and Write
- Play dough
What Skills Does This Kindergarten Writing Small Group Product Address?
- Students will practice drawing detailed pictures.
- Students will use many shapes in their pictures.
- Students will write the first sound they hear in their writing.
- Students will add labels to their pictures.
- Students will dictate their stories to an adult.
- Students will independently write for longer periods of time.
What Literacy Standards Does This Kindergarten Writing Product Address?
- L.K.1a – Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
- L.K.2c – Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).
- L.K.2d – Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
- W.K.1 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is…).
- W.K.2 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
- W.K.3 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Resources You May Also Love:
- Get the FULL Writing Small Groups Bundle!
- Writing Warm-Up Slides
- Year-Long Literacy Small Groups Bundle
This product is licensed for personal classroom use unless multiple licenses are purchased.
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