The Kindergarten class meets for Literacy (Reading and Writing) daily for 45 - 60 minutes. The Kindergarten writing curriculum is guided by the Teachers College Writers Project where students are invited to live, work, and learn as writers. Students will use their daily lives, the world around them, and our project-based work in Social Studies and Science as inspiration for writing pieces. Throughout the year, students will work to write a variety of published pieces. Students will take writing pieces from small ideas (seeds) to published work. In Kindergarten, students will learn that stories can be big and bold and also live in the smallest ideas. Through their writing, students will share personal experiences, summarize what they have researched, and create works of fiction and nonfiction.
Each Kindergartener's fluency in writing is enhanced through continuous daily exposure to the writing process. Throughout the year, students will progress through a variety of writing stages. At the beginning of the year, the Kindergarten class will focus on developing complete thoughts. In doing so, students will share their complete thoughts with me as I record the thoughts for them. Students then move to transfer writing "post-it note writing" where I record a student's complete thoughts on a post-it note allowing them to transfer their thoughts to their writer's notebook. As each student's confidence grows in their ability to identify letter sounds and letter relationships students move to the final writing stage of the Kindergarten year, phonetic spelling "kid spelling". During this stage, students begin to rely on their own ability to recognize letter relationships within words to spell words and form sentences. At this stage, correct spelling is not the goal. The goal here is to further their individual confidence to write and spell independently.
Implemented in the spring of 2012, a school wide holistic writing assessment is administered to each student at the start of the school year to document and monitor your child's writing fluency. Using the Teachers College Writing Project Narrative Writing Continuum we can determine where your child's writing falls in conjunction with developmental levels and Common Care Standards. We will discuss your child's holistic writing assessment at Fall conferences.
Each Kindergartener's fluency in writing is enhanced through continuous daily exposure to the writing process. Throughout the year, students will progress through a variety of writing stages. At the beginning of the year, the Kindergarten class will focus on developing complete thoughts. In doing so, students will share their complete thoughts with me as I record the thoughts for them. Students then move to transfer writing "post-it note writing" where I record a student's complete thoughts on a post-it note allowing them to transfer their thoughts to their writer's notebook. As each student's confidence grows in their ability to identify letter sounds and letter relationships students move to the final writing stage of the Kindergarten year, phonetic spelling "kid spelling". During this stage, students begin to rely on their own ability to recognize letter relationships within words to spell words and form sentences. At this stage, correct spelling is not the goal. The goal here is to further their individual confidence to write and spell independently.
Implemented in the spring of 2012, a school wide holistic writing assessment is administered to each student at the start of the school year to document and monitor your child's writing fluency. Using the Teachers College Writing Project Narrative Writing Continuum we can determine where your child's writing falls in conjunction with developmental levels and Common Care Standards. We will discuss your child's holistic writing assessment at Fall conferences.