Kindergarten Learning Expectations
Essential Learning 3: The student understands the writing process.Writing Skill 3.1: Applies phonic skills to personal spelling.
Definition of Writing Skill:
When the student is writing unknown words, he/she uses letters that represent the sounds in the order that they are uttered in the word. Primarily beginning and ending consonants will be used. Experience children will add medial consonants and vowels.
Strategies:
- Teacher models
guess and go spelling. For example; the teacher pretends to be stuck
on the word butterfly, she wants to keep writing and fix it later. She
models " I hear a "b" at the beginning at "t"
then "r" then "f" then "l" then "I".
The word may be written "btrfli".
- Once children know
many sounds, the teacher may assist them by not telling them how to
spell the word, but helping the child to listen for the sounds he hears.
Reinforcing this by saying "yes, those letters are in that word.
Correcting by saying, I don't hear that one, listen again. (you can
expect c's an s's to get mixed up an c's and k's to be interchanged)
- Provide many opportunities
for children to write, when you aren't by their sides to nag. Writing
pads and pencils in the Housekeeping area, and Math and Science areas.
- Teach children to use known parts of words that they know to get to words they don't know.
Assessment:
- Teacher observation of student writing:
- Have children read their own writing.
- The sounds they have written should match what they are saying.
- Federal Way Public Schools's Three-Trait Writing Assessment for Kindergarten.