Disclaimer: Until I take a picture of the anchor chart that corresponds with this lesson, this may make absolutely no sense. My apologies, friends.
Even though the school year is just beginning, I'm ready to jump in and introduce my students to some early writing topics. It seems like every year I have a kiddo with a birthday in the first couple weeks of school. This gives me a ready-made writing topic. Buckle up and off we go!
I begin by telling my students that they already have the most important thing they need for writing: ideas. My job as their teacher will be to help their ideas travel from their brain to their pencils so all those important thoughts can be written. I suggest we begin with birthdays because every kid in kindergarten has a birthday! We count the number of words in our sentence (I usually tell the kids to start with 3-6 words in a sentence--no more words than years you are old!) and write that number at the top of our page. Then, we write down the sounds we hear in the words, leaving a 2 finger space to separate each word. Finally, the important part: drawing your sentence!
At the beginning of kindergarten, the majority of written communication takes place through drawing. I encourage my students to create one picture for each word in their sentence. For example, if I was drawing the sentence "I love birthdays," I would draw a picture of myself to represent the word I, a heart to represent love, and a cake with candles to represent birthdays. I promise to take a picture of this soon and add it to the post for clarity. For now, just smile and nod. :)
Share your writing ideas by commenting below! And as always, keep it class-y, ya'll!
This lesson relates to:
CCSS ELA-Literacy 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.
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