Mini-Writing Workshop

Hello Families,
I am going to attempt to clarify the process of our writing which I have just added to the activities you can do at home with your learner.  I am including all of the tools provided to me by my school.  The Flagler County Writing Assessment Rubric for Kindergarten is provided in your planner and is used to determine at what stage your child is writing.

     
Your children are emerging writers and it is so very exciting to see them marry what they are thinking on a topic to the letters and sounds they are learning.  The focus in building a critical writer is to provide them with how to construct focus, purpose and a plan to their essays.  That is a mouthful for us as adults to understand and thankfully there is a framework that will help.

The expository frame provided here is from a writing workshop all teachers attended and is currently what we use in class.  I will give a topic we will work on this week in the blog.  The children and I will work on this at school during our Writing block. If you can, help at home.  I will chunk the parts of the framework in to different days.  Constructing the topic sentence (two days), First (reason- two days), Next, (reason -two days), Last (reason- two days), In conclusion (two days).  In your sessions at home, please only take 8 to 15 minutes for each one-on-one meeting.  You can support the children in how to write by using sounds.  Ask your child to s-t-r-e-t-c-h out the word with the charts I sent home. If your house is like mine, I wish you luck in finding that little chart!             

This is a formula, but I am choosing to look at this process of writing from a warmer point of view.  I am tilling the land in showing the foundations of writing with focus, organization, support and conventions.  I will plant these seeds now.  With your help, you will slowly come to see and enjoy the beauty of  your capable writer blossom.
Warmly,
Mrs. C.

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