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Making short stories in kindergarten
Hi! Future Ticia 2024 here, and I’m updating this kindergarten short story Writing lesson to make it a bit more useful and to include a few more pictures.
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Where this kindergarten short story writing lesson came from
In kindergarten we used a word of the day reading program. The kids would get a word and write it on an index card, and on the other side of the index card they would illustrate the index card.
But, I wanted to do something more with this to help them work on their reading lessons.
Supplies needed for this writing lesson
index cards, coloring supplies (pipsqueak markers were popular with my kids)
Word of the day or some other words that you want them to work on reading
Now back to past Ticia 2011
I know, it’s totally one most of you have thought of, but this is really working for us!
Each day for reading the kids are writing their words for the day on an index card. After they’ve written the word, they turn the card over and illustrate it.
I then bind them into a book, and they tell stories from it. First they read the word and then flip the card over and expand on the word with a multi-sentence story. But, they LOVE this! I mean LOVE!
Expanding on this kindergarten short story writing lesson
Okay, back to Future Ticia 2024.
Now, you can keep that as an oral lesson and just leave that there.
If you check out the pumpkin writing lessons, you’ll see one way to expand this even further is to write down the story they are telling you so they can add more words they can read into their repertoire.
That’s it. Writing lessons do not have to be complicated, actually it makes your life easier if you don’t make them complicated.
More early learning ideas
I wrote so many ideas when the kids were little, let’s see what else I have buried in here:
Comments
11 responses to “Making short stories in kindergarten”
It's interesting that you are making progress with reading through writing and drawing. I was just contemplating the other day how my incredibly proficient reader cannot spell and doesn't want to write. It's amazing how every child is different in their journey to literacy.
I like the multi-sensory approach!
I bet this would work for R.
i think this is great! You shoul link this up to Writer's World link-up on my blog 🙂
I think this is a great idea – and I could definitely see it working for my kids!
really great idea!
I will have to try this with Emily!
this is fantastic 🙂 I will have to try this out with my daughter!
This is a terrific idea – one we've never tried before 🙂
Great idea! Little J's year has been heavy on writing and his teacher always has them illustrate their work. I think it has helped him organize his thoughts and extend his stories. I'll have to remember your idea for this summer.
I'll have to try it with my daughter. She loves making up her own rhyming word books, but we've never tried anything with random words. She has weekly words from school that we write each week on the bathtub wall. Seeing and reading them every night helps her and me remember to practice!
Looking forward to seeing your beginning reader game.
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