Writing sentences won’t happen immediately, but with lots of scaffolding, they will get there.Ĥ.
Beginning of year kindergarten activities how to#
Instead, model how to draw with lots of details, and then work up to having kids label their pictures, and eventually teach them how to write their own, original sentences.
There’s nothing wrong with having them occasionally copy words or sentence starters from the board, but I don’t recommend doing this often at the beginning of the year, because the kids will become dependent on that. But if, from the start, you ask your students to come up with their own ideas and use what they know to write words, then your Kinders will be more independent throughout the whole year. If you teach them that writing consists of copying your words or always using sentence starters, then kids will believe that that is what writing is. Expect the kids to come up with their own pictures and words. Explicitly teach kids how to turn ideas into pictures and how to add details to their pictures.ģ. It’s developmentally appropriate for children to draw before they write. I can’t quote the exact study, but I have heard research showing that kids who draw with more details become kids who write with more details. That’s 5 or 6 minilessons right there! I kept it simple and started out slow, instead of cramming all those procedures into 1 or 2 minilessons. I would spend entire minilessons on all of the following: using pencils safely and correctly, using crayons safely and correctly, drawing on both sides of the paper, knowing when to get more paper, staying on task the entire work period, writing your name on your paper.
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