Writing Resources

Ways to Practice Writing

Writing at home will help your child gain more confidence in writing. You will find many resources that you can view, and download, to use at home.

Planning Out a Sentence with Lines

Have your child say the sentence they are trying to write out loud. Then count how many words are in that sentence on your fingers. Draw a line for the number of words in the sentence. Have your child touch each line to say what word goes on each line. Then go back and write the words on each line.

Cut Up Sentence Strips

Write a sentence out on sentence a sentence strip and read it with your child. After reading it a few times, cut the sentence up into words. Have your child put the sentence back together by thinking what word is needed next. Have your child copy the sentence on their own.

Planning a Story

To plan out a story, use the Depth and Complexity Icon of Details. When using this icon, you can put the main idea of the story in the middle, and the details on each of the petals. On each petal you can include who, what, where, when, why and how you were feeling.

Treasure in My Hand.pdf

Treasure in My Hand

Using the Treasure in My Hand Poem can help your child remember the different parts of a story that they must include when writing.

Spaces Between Words

Here is an anchor chart that we use to help remember what kind of spaces we need to use when writing. We use meatball spaces between words and spaghetti spaces between letters in words. The picture below the anchor chart is a student utilizing the spacer.

Writing Checklist (1).pdf

Writing Checklist

Use this writing checklist to make sure your writing is the best it can be.

Copy of Story Leads.doc

Copy of Story Endings.doc

Sentence Starter & Endings

Use these sentence starters at the beginning of your sentence. Use these endings to help end your story in an exciting way and tell how you were feeling.

Writing Letters Correctly on Lines

We use these terms to help students remember what lines letters should be correctly written between. Giraffe letters start at the top line and go all the way to the bottom line. Monkey letters start at the dotted line and hang below the bottom line. Chicken letters start at the dotted line and go to the bottom line. Use these phrases to help your child write letters correctly on the lines.

CVC Word List.pdf

Writing CVC Words

Kindergarten students should be able to write simple words following the cvc (consonant vowel consonant) pattern, as well as cvce (consonant vowel consonant silent e). This document includes a list of cvc words (per vowel), sentences to go along with cvc words, and various nonsense words that can be used to help write the sounds in words.

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