Writing

Writing expectations:

• Generate ideas through class discussion
• Draw a picture about ideas generated through class discussion
• Communicate by drawing, telling, or writing for a purpose.
• Create a group draft, scripted by the teacher.
• Reread original draft scripted by teacher or individual.
• Add additional details with prompting.
• Review the draft for errors in conventions, with prompting
• Share a finished piece of writing.
• Use pictures that convey meaning.
• Use pictures with imitative text, letters, or recognizable words to convey meaning
• Use labels, captions, or picture descriptors to expand meaning.
• Show a clear sense of coordination between text and pictures (e.g., a reader can readily see that they go together).
• Consistently write left to right and top to bottom
• Space appropriately between words with some degree of accuracy
• Create pictures or text with distinctive personal style and originality.
• Select labels, captions, or descriptors to enhance pictures
• Use words, labels, or short phrases that clearly go with picture text.
• Attempt simple sentences (some may be fragments).
• Write the 26 letters of the alphabet in: lower case and capital forms
• Distinguish between upper and lower case letters
• Use capital letters to begin “important” words, although may be inconsistent or experimental
• Use spaces between words
• Write left to right and top to bottom.
• Use punctuation in writing, although may be inconsistent or experimental.
• Use knowledge of letter sound relationship to spell simple words with some consonants and few vowels (e.g., I lik t d nts. – I like to draw knights.)
• Use resources (e.g., environmental print, word walls) to spell correctly.
• Write own name on personal work.
• Create narratives by drawing, dictating, and/or emergent writing.
• Participate in writing simple poetry, rhymes, songs, or chants.
• Participate in creating expository texts (e.g., labels, lists, observations, journals, summaries) through drawing or writing.
• Participate in writing a variety of functional text (e.g., classroom rules, letters, experiments, recipes, notes/messages, labels, directions, posters, graphs/tables).
• Participate in writing communications, with teacher as scribe, including: friendly letters and thank-you notes
• Participate in a group discussion, based on a literature selection, that identifies the character(s), setting, and sequence of events.
• Participate in a group discussion in response to a given piece of literature that connects text to self (personal connection), text to world (social connection), text to text (compare within multiple texts)
• Participate in a creating a simple class report where the teacher is the scribe.

www.ade.az.gov/standards/language-arts/writing/kindergarten.pdf