Kindergarten Learning Expectations

Writing Skill 1.1: Prints letters accurately.

Definition of Writing Skill:

Letters can be easily read. Print is from top to bottom and left to right.

Strategies:

Letters -

• Students initially learn to print letters when they are learning their sounds.

   

• Use of district adopted D'Nealian for teaching letter formation. Special attention is paid to verbal descriptions of letter formation provided in the teacher's manual.

   

• Use lap sized white boards and writing in the air for group lessons on letter formation and practice.

   

• Use salt trays (e.g., salt, rice, or corn meal on dark colored tray).

   

• Wipe off transparencies for tracing, or practice.

   

• Writing in shaving cream.

   

• Practice in journals.

Numbers -

• Use lap sized white boards and writing in the air for group lessons on number formation and practice.

   

• Use salt trays (e.g., salt, rice, or corn meal on dark colored tray).

   

• Wipe off transparencies for tracing, or practice.

   

• Writing in shaving cream.

   

• Practice in journals.

Resources:

• D'Nealian or Modern Primary font for the computer:

- print letters in large size (74 to 100) in outline form for children to practice tracing and copying.

Assessment:

Teacher observation of child's writing.

- Can you easily tell what the letters are?