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Project Folio

Title

Beginning to Write

Collaborators

Tonya Holmes
Diane Potts

Schools

Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary

Languages

English

Grades

Kindergarten

Last Modified

February 4, 2007

Description

In Kindergarten the children arrive with all different levels of experience with pencils and writing. Some children have never held a pencil and others may be familar with writing letters. My goal is to get them writing short stories, letters and poems by the end of the year.

Demonstrations

Telling Stories

 The most amazing transformation in Kindergarten is in writing.  I love to see the children begin to be able to write stories, letters and poems.  I begin teaching them to write by writing together.  We will decide on a class story (usually only one or two sentences long) and then we write it together on the white...
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Wonderful Words

I love teaching Kindergarten but what I love most is teaching them to write. By the end of Kindergarten most of my students can write short stories, poems and letters. This is how I start them off on their amazing journey.
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