KINDERGARTEN
Harcourt has included a writing component throughout the Kindergarten reading program. Because we have found Write…from the Beginning to be developmentally appropriate and successful for our students, we have attempted to blend the philosophy and strategies in WFTB into the structure of this new reading series.
Correlation of Terminology
Writing component
Kindergarten Grade level
Volume 1
Volume 1 is the first of five volumes in the Kindergarten level.
Write…from the Beginning strategies have been correlated with Volume 1 themes. At the end of Volume 1, kindergarten students should be able to draw a picture with detailed characters and a detailed setting with one complete thought about the picture. The Kindergarten rubric will be used periodically to assess student growth. Teachers should look for scores to increase as the year progresses. The goal is to have a student score 5-6 points by the END of the year.
Please note that the following daily plans are only SUGGESTIONS for the classroom teacher.
Theme 1 All About Me
Lesson 1
Suggested Lesson Planner (T18 – T19)
Step 3 Revised with WFTB strategies
Day 1 Draw a picture of yourself. (after teacher models her/his picture)
Day 2 Add a detail to your picture. (after teacher models adding detail)
Day 3 Add another detail to your picture.
Day 4 Add another detail to your picture and the uppercase letter that begins your name.
Day 5 Add one more detail and the other letters in your name. Share.
Lesson 2
Suggested Lesson Planner (T94- T95)
Step 3 Revised with WFTB strategies
Day 1 Draw a picture of a friend in your class. (Teacher models drawing picture of a student.)
Day 2 Add a detail to your picture (after teacher models adding detail).
Day 3 Add another detail to your picture.(after teacher….)
Day 4 Add another detail to your picture and the uppercase letter of your friend’s name.
Day 5 Add one more detail to your picture and the other letters in your friend’s name. Share by presenting the picture to your friend.
Lesson 3
Suggested Lesson Planner (T170 – T171)
Step 3 Revised with WFTB strategies
Day 1 Draw a picture of an animal you like that was inFromHead to Toe (5x8 size)
Day 2 Talk about setting. Add a detail to your animal that shows where it lives.
Day 3 Group activity: Teacher provides large chart paper. Each child places his/her animal on the paper grouping like-animals as he/she says the name of the animal and what it can do.
Day 4 Teacher labels each group of animals.
Day 5 Group activity: Change the label to a sentence. (ex: monkeys Monkeys climb trees.)
Theme 2Families
Lesson 4
Suggested Lesson Planner (T244 – T245)
Step 3 Revised with WFTB strategies
Day 1 Draw a picture of someone in your family. (3x5 size)
Day 2 Draw a picture of another person/relative in your family. (3x5 size)
Day 3 Add details to both pictures.
Day 4 Talk about settings. Look at Bear’s Busy Family and note details used in indoor and outdoor settings.
Day 5 Teacher models drawing details that show an inside setting. Students draw an inside setting and “stick” their two family characters on their picture. ** Note: These two characters will be used again in Lesson 5 and will be taken off this picture.
Lesson 5
Suggested Lesson Planner (T320 – T321)
Step 3 Revised with WFTB strategies
Day 1 Teacher models adding a simple sentence to her picture from theprevious week. (ex: Holly and Daniel are in my house.) Ask each student to share their picture and verbally complete the sentence adding the names of their family members.
Day 2 Teacher prepares small sentence strips with (______and ______are inmy house. Student fills in the blanks with family members’ names and glues it on their picture.
Day 3 Teacher models drawing an outside setting with details. Students draw an outside setting.
Day 4 Students take characters from previous picture and “stick” them on their outside setting. Ask each student to share their picture and verbally complete the sentence (______and ______are outside my house.) adding the characters’ name.
Day 5 Teacher prepares small sentence strips with (______and ______are outside my house.) Student fills in the blanks with family members’ names and glues it on their picture.
Lesson 6
TEACHER WILL NOT MODEL THIS WEEK
WFTB Kindergarten Picture rubric (p. 401) will be used at end of week
Suggested Lesson Planner (T394 – T395)
Step 3 Revised with WFTB strategies
Day 1 Students orally talk to class about something they did over the weekend that was fun.
Day 2 Prompt: “Draw a picture of something you did this weekend that was fun.” NO Teacher modeling
Day 3 Teacher asks students to add 2 or more details to their character.
Day 4 Teacher asks students to add 2 or more details to their setting. “What details can you add so I will know it’s an inside or an outside setting?”
Day 5 Students share pictures with class. Teacher collects pictures and scores with WFTB Kindergartenpicture rubric. Scores will be 0, 1, 2, or 3.
**Note: WFTB Kindergarten Writing rubric will be applied after next theme.