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Kindergarten Writing Activities

Teaching kindergarten writing can produce some amazing results!

Kindergarten writing activities for non-fiction reports?

This type of primary writing is perfect for our youngest students.

Did you know that high-achieving schools do two to six times as much authentic reading and writing as other schools?

Through teacher modeling and interactive writing experiences, we can have even our youngest students working in a non-fiction report writing format.

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Primary writing has many stages. Some children are at the beginning stage where their pictures are representations for their thoughts and ideas.

Others are beginning to experiment with sounds and the relationships between letters. Whatever stage a child is at, teachers must convey that their attempts do represent meaning.

An essential part of kindergarten writing activities is drawing. Drawing is part of writing because it is what young children do naturally and playfully. (Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers. Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe. Stenhouse Publisher, 2007.)

In this lesson plan for report writing, we pull together primary students' curiosity of the world around them, their need to express themselves through drawing, and a safe avenue for beginning attempts at words and sentence structure.

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"Did You Know" : A Report Writing Format for Kindergarten

This report writing format was shown to me by a colleague, Mrs. Rhoades. She was so excited about what her kindergarten students had written, and I had to agree.

In fact, I knew that she would be able to explain it better to you than I ever could, so she graciously agreed to explain the report writing format she uses. It is a non-fiction, expository writing activity with a kindergarten class.

^{Activity adapted from Of Primary Importance: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers by Ann Marie Corgill}

You can do authentic, meaningful writing activities in kindergarten.

I plan on adapting this writing lesson for my second graders this spring - it will also be great for ESL writing!

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