Getting to the Core of Writing

Essential Lessons for Every Kindergarten Student

Vickie Wallace-Nesler, Jan McNeel, Richard Gentry

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781425895013
• Edition: 0

Inspire students to develop as writers in the kindergarten classroom with these engaging and creative writing lessons. This classroom-tested resource shows positive results in students'' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It contains detailed information on how to establish and manage daily Writer''s Workshop and includes consistent, structured instruction to encourage students to actively participate in the writing process. Specific lessons to help students develop the traits of quality writing are also included. This resource develops college and career readiness skills and is aligned to today''s standards.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Table of Contents (cont.)
• Page 5 - The Importance of Writing
• Page 6 - Traits of Quality Writing
• Page 7 - The Reading and Writing Connection
• Page 8 - Phases of Writing
• Page 10 - The Purpose of Assessment
• Page 11 - Planning Writing Instruction
• Page 14 - Components of Writer’s Workshop
• Page 15 - Implementing the Lessons
• Page 18 - Implementing Writer’s Workshop
• Page 19 - The Writing Conference
• Page 21 - Top 10 Tips for Creating Successful Writers
• Page 22 - Correlation to Standards
• Page 27 - Acknowledgments
• Page 28 - About the Authors
• Page 29 - Managing Writer’s Workshop
• Page 31 - Lesson 1: My Writing Folder
• Page 35 - Lesson 2: Looks Like, Sounds Like,Feels Like
• Page 38 - Lesson 3: Guidelines for Writer’s Workshop
• Page 41 - Lesson 4: Two-Inch Voices
• Page 43 - Lesson 5: Turn and Talk
• Page 46 - Lesson 6: Posture and Pencil Grip
• Page 48 - Lesson 7: Sharing
• Page 51 - Print Concepts
• Page 53 - Lesson 1: Kinds of Writing
• Page 55 - Lesson 2: Connecting Sounds to Names
• Page 57 - Lesson 3: Where to Start! Left to Right and Return Sweep
• Page 59 - Lesson 4: Differentiating Letters,Words, and Sentences
• Page 61 - Lesson 5: Spacing
• Page 63 - Lesson 6: Adult Underwriting
• Page 65 - Lesson 7: Directionality and Lowercase Letters
• Page 69 - Lesson 8: Word-to-Word With Supported Writing
• Page 71 - Ideas
• Page 73 - Lesson 1: Ideas Thinking Chart
• Page 75 - Lesson 2: My Think Page
• Page 77 - Lesson 3: My Idea Bank
• Page 80 - Lesson 4: Important People
• Page 85 - Lesson 5: Things All Around Us
• Page 88 - Lesson 6: Helping Hands
• Page 91 - Lesson 7: Getting Ideas from Literature
• Page 93 - Sentence Fluency
• Page 95 - Lesson 1: Using Sentence Stems
• Page 99 - Lesson 2: Parts of a Sentence
• Page 109 - Lesson 3: Growing Sentences
• Page 111 - Lesson 4: Building Sentences
• Page 119 - Lesson 5: Froggy Phrases
• Page 123 - Organization
• Page 125 - Lesson 1: Matching Text to Picture
• Page 128 - Lesson 2: My First Book
• Page 130 - Lesson 3: Writing Block Planner
• Page 133 - Lesson 4: Telling, Sketching,and Writing Narrative Text
• Page 136 - Lesson 5: Writing a Letter
• Page 138 - Lesson 6: Telling, Sketching, and Writing Informative Text
• Page 141 - Lesson 7: Using Speech Bubbles
• Page 143 - Lesson 8: Poetry: Simple Acrostic
• Page 145 - Lesson 9: Making Alphabet Books
• Page 147 - Word Choice
• Page 149 - Lesson 1: The Words We See and Know: Environmental Print
• Page 156 - Lesson 2: Using High Frequency Words
• Page 160 - Lesson 3: Using Color and Number Words
• Page 165 - Lesson 4: Be a Word Detective: What Do You See
• Page 167 - Lesson 5: Using Action Words
• Page 171 - Voice
• Page 173 - Lesson 1: Showing Feeling
• Page 175 - Conventions
• Page 177 - Lesson 1: Using the Alphabet Chart
• Page 180 - Lesson 2: Hand Spelling
• Page 183 - Lesson 3: Sentence Starts and Stops
• Page 185 - Lesson 4: Perfect Punctuation
• Page 188 - Lesson 5: Sound Cubes: I CanHear It!
• Page 191 - Lesson 6: My Writing Checklist
• Page 194 - Appendix A: Conferring Resources
• Page 202 - Appendix B: Assessment Resources
• Page 210 - Appendix C: Mentor Text List
• Page 215 - Appendix D: Additional Resources
• Page 250 - Appendix E: References
• Page 253 - Appendix F: Contents of the Teacher Resource CD
• Thank You Page