writing ppt revised

Growing Young Writers

Kindergarten Writing Training

November 2011

Creating a Writing Community

• Topic choice

• Opportunities for students to read the kinds of books they want to write

• Provide demonstration, practice, teaching, and celebration during writer’s workshop

• Give a purpose and an audience for writing

• Teacher support

• Writing tools

• Time to think, talk, write, and share everyday

• Freedom to make mistakes

Creating a Writing Community

Creates Dependence • Teacher selects prompt

• Teacher keeps supplies

• Writing lasts as long as a writing period or a journal page

• Students resist making revisions

• Students brainstorm very few ideas on the topic

Fosters Independence • Students select a writing

topic

• Materials are easily accessible

• Students write the sounds they hear

• Students may work on the same piece for days

• Students are excited to share

Reading About Writing

Table Talk

• What kind of writing environment have you created in your classroom? Are students free to be creative and make mistakes? Are you fostering independence?

• What do you want to start doing in your classroom to create a positive writing environment?

Why is Drawing Important?

• It is the way beginning writers represent and understand meaning.

• It is a way for children to be heard.

• It develops language.

• Allows children to go deeper into their stories.

• Teaches children about the craft of writing.

• If drawing is an early stage of writing, then we should want our students to draw well just as we want them to write well.

Why Do Writers Draw First?

• Most children like to draw.

• Most children come to school already drawing.

• For young children, drawing is writing.

• It gives them opportunities to do what writers do.

Ways to Support Drawing

• Model

• Think aloud about drawing

• Use familiar shapes

• Teach through mini-lessons

• Point out illustrations in books

• Writers must inform their readers. Whatever you are writing, show you are the authority through your words and picture.

Ways to Support Drawing

• Create a drawing center filled with interesting materials.

• Have children bring in familiar objects to draw.

• Get to know something by doing it a lot – do a lot of the same drawings in different ways (faces)

• Provide time for drawing.

• Assess student’s drawings to determine what children need to make them better.

• Provide opportunities for them to make their work better.

• Celebrate

Ways to Support Drawing

• Draw about what they know

• Draw characters in a variety of ways (facing different directions)

• Include the tiniest details (a dog tag with the dog’s name on it)

• Reveal feelings (through facial expressions)

• Reveal the setting through one little detail (a spigot for a sink)

• Use the illustrations and the words to tell the story (they may tell different parts of the story)

Talking, Drawing, and Writing

pics found on Pinterest

Books That Teach Drawing

Writer’s Workshop

• 2-5 times a week

• Begins with a mini-lesson

• Most of the time is spent in independent writing

• Ends with sharing out

• The mini-lesson - 5 to 10 minutes

• The independent writing and conferencing - 20 to 30 minutes

• Sharing - 5 to 10 minutes

Writing Mini-Lessons

• Is the modeling and demonstration of a target skill

• Used to teach even the simplest skills - how to put away materials, etc.

• Used to target SE’s

• Include WFTB mini-lessons

Phases of a Mini-Lesson

• Engagement – students try what was taught (partner share or quick write), 1-5 minutes

• Link – link the skill to previous instruction, 1-2 minutes

• For example: “Today and everyday, remember to leave spaces between words.”

• Connection – Connect to previous learning, 1-2 minutes

• Teach – Define, model, and demonstrate the new skill, 3-10 minutes

• Provide models such as pictures or examples

Types of Mini-Lessons

• Foundational – assists with organization of a piece (choosing a topic, sequencing of thoughts, beginning, middle, and end, etc.)

• Craft – move writing beyond the basics (word choice)

• Operational – defines procedures such as transitioning to the carpet area, when to sharpen a pencil, how to give and receive feedback, etc.

• Print awareness – print conventions

Independent Writing and Conferencing

• Provide resources for students to use such as alphabet strips, portable word walls, word source rings, read alouds, etc.

• Where will materials be stored and how will students access them?

• The largest portion of writer’s workshop

• Start with 10 minutes and work up to 20 to 30. Build stamina just like in reading.

• Determine where students will write.

• Silent vs. quiet writing

Management Tips

• Color-coded folders

• 1 person picks up folders and 1 person returns them

• Materials are stored in folders and bins

• Different types of paper, markers, boo boo tape

• Teacher’s role

Idea from Kim Adsit

Independent Writing and Conferencing

rubrics

Idea from Kim Adsit

pic found on Pinterest

Independent Writing and Conferencing

journals

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Sharing

• Questions help the author consider details.

• Allow 3 students to ask a question.

• Reminders help students make a connection to their own life.

• Allow 1 or 2 students to give a reminder.

• Author’s Chair

• Feedback

• Notices help the author recognize weaknesses in the piece.

• Allow 3 students to give a notice.

• For example “ I like the way you left spaces between your words. “

Table Talk

• Even if you do not do writer’s workshop in your classroom, what is at least one element you can take away from what you just learned? How will you implement it in your classroom?

Tools For Writing

spacers

markers

sight words

correction tape

Different Types of Spacers

Portable Word Walls

pics found on Pinterest

Kim Adsit

• Create borders

• Capital letters in one color and lowercase letters in another color

• Add pictures for beginning sounds

• Make the words in black and white print

Word Walls

Anchor Charts

• For those ideas you want to return to time and time again

• Needs a title

• Use color

• Not too wordy

• Use borders

• Has visuals pic found on Pinterest

Anchor Charts

www.adsit.net Idea by Kim Adsit

Table Talk

• What tools are you allowing your students to use during writing? Is there a specific tool you just saw that you want to add?

• What is something you just learned about anchor charts or word walls? Is there something you learned that you plan to implement in your classroom?

Using Mentor Texts to Write

add details

fill in white space

conventions

organization pic found on Pinterest

Using Mentor Texts to Write

• Read the picture book on your table.

• Look over the vertical alignment documents.

• Use the book and the SE’s to plan a trait-focused kindergarten writing lesson.

• Chart the SE(s) you plan to target, your objective, your product, and your activity.

• Be ready to share with the group.

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts

ABC Order

Predictable charts

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts Morning Message

pics found on Pinterest Deanna Jump

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts

Class Books

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts

journaling

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts

using technology

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts pic found on Pinterest

Writing Throughout the Day

in language arts

Writing Throughout the Day

in math

Writing Throughout the Day

in math

Writing Throughout the Day

in math

Writing Throughout the Day

in math Idea by Brooke Perry

Writing Throughout the Day

in math

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Writing Throughout the Day

in math

Writing Throughout the Day

in math

Writing Throughout the Day

in math

Writing Throughout the Day

in math

with graphing Idea from Kim Adsit

Writing Throughout the Day

in science

Writing Throughout the Day

in science

pics found on Pinterest

Writing Throughout the Day

in science

abc order

Writing Throughout the Day

in science in science

Informational books

Writing Throughout the Day

in science Idea from Jonelle Bell

Writing Throughout the Day

in social studies

lists

Writing Throughout the Day

in social studies

Writing Throughout the Day

in social studies

Writing Throughout the Day

in social studies

Writing Throughout the Day

in social studies

Writing Throughout the Day

in social studies

Writing Throughout the Day

in social studies

More Writing Ideas

“Spotlight” on Writing

Handwriting King and Queen

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More Writing Ideas

Adding More Detail

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More Writing Ideas

editing

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More Writing Ideas

Creating Mental Images

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More Writing Ideas

Small Drawings

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More Writing Ideas

Holiday Writing

Idea from First Grade Blue Skies

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More Writing Ideas

Seasonal Writing pics found on Pinterest

More Writing Ideas

Drawing Idea by Jonelle Bell

pic found on Pinterest

More Writing Ideas

Drawing pics found on Pinterest

More Writing Ideas

art lines

self portraits

copy an illustrator art dice

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More Writing Ideas

lists

Idea from Kim Adsit

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More Writing Ideas

Labeling Idea from Julie Lee

More Writing Ideas

Labeling First Grade Blue Skies

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Writing Throughout the Day

in science response to literature

Idea from Brooke Perry

Writing Throughout the Day

response to literature Idea from Deanna Jump

Idea from Brooke Perry

Writing Throughout the Day

response to literature

Writing Throughout the Day

response to literature

Table Talk

• What ideas can you come up with for writing throughout the day? In other content areas?

Teaching Punctuation

http://mrsjonesroom.com/songs/punctuation.html

Website Resource - Writing Fix

http://writingfix.com/

Writing Resources