Writer’s Toolkit for Kindergarten -Word Wall, ABC Chart & Song, Next Steps Check

Writer’s Toolkit for Kindergarten, to help kids write and assess their own work. ABC Chart, Personal Word Wall, Next Steps Checklist for a writer's notebook or folder.

BONUS: ABC Song and Writing Rubric in a Song MP3s to liven up your lessons with an educational song and dance break!

> Printables to fold and glue into a writer’s notebook or place in a writer’s folder:

1) ABC Chart – print in color or grayscale; black line version, word-only, and letter-only versions so you may differentiate for students' needs and abilities

2) Personal Word Wall – with sight words, content area, high-interest, number, and color words

3) Next Steps Checklist – for self-assessment, in simple language with pictures; beginning and advanced versions

> BONUS: Two MP3 songs, perfect to liven up your writing lessons with a brain break!

1) “ABC Song” to match the ABC Chart

2) “Look at Your Writing,” a beginning writer's rubric in an MP3 song!

*****PLEASE PREVIEW THE ABC SONG AND "LOOK AT YOUR WRITING" SONG BEFORE PURCHASING*****

For More Info on Each Resource in the Writer’s Toolkit for Kindergarten:

> ABC Song and Chart - with MP3

> Personal Word Wall for Student Notebook or Writing Folder

> Next Steps Checklist for Kindergarten

> Look At Your Writing – K Rubric in a Song - MP3

Ideal for…

• Writing assignments

• Learning Centers and Small Group Work

• Homework: Send the printables home, to help parents and kids assess, revise or edit homework.

• Whole-Class review

ABC song MP3 with six ABC charts!

• Liven up your phonics lesson with a song and dance brain break, and help kids learn alphabet letters and sounds—all with clear and proper pronunciation. “A-Apple-/a/…B-Bat-/b/…”

• ABC Song is perfect for the whole class, small group, listening center, computer time, distance-learning, or homeschooling.

• Kids can follow along as they point to the chart.

Personal Word Wall – a printable dictionary for each child:

• It's an ideal way to help kids learn sight words, high frequency words, high interest words, color words and number words.

• Simply fold and glue the personal word wall printable into each child’s writing notebook, or place in a writing folder, or display, for easy reference.

• PRINT ON PASTEL OR NEON PAPER TO JAZZ IT UP!
• THIS WORD WALL IS NON-EDITABLE

• High frequency words, high-interest words, and content area words

• ALL the words from the Pre-Primer, Primer and First Grade Most-Used Lists

• Kids can add their own favorite words to the back of this sheet.

Word Wall Printable is Perfect for K - 1

• Writing assignments: Quick and easy reference for kids; glue the word wall printable into their notebooks

• Learning Centers: Post this word wall at the writing center for easy access.

• Homework: Helps parents to review sight words with their children. You may assign one word or several words that begin with one letter, for children to use in sentences and illustrate.

• Whole Class Review: Open the word wall PDF on your Smartboard for kids to read all together or one at a time.

Next Steps Checklist:

• A writing checklist for kindergarten kids, to reflect on and assess their own work.

• Written in simple language with pictures, it’s perfect for a kindergarten writing notebook or writing folder.

• Kids may check off the items they can do well. They should note their “Next Steps” and use them to improve their writing independently as they work.

• Next Steps Checklist for kindergarten has two versions: beginning and advanced (with more words and no pictures).

"Look At Your Writing" MP3 Song:

• A writing rubric in a song!

• How often do you remind kids of the basic writing mechanics? This song helps kids remember the writing rubric Common Core Language Skills, and take a song and dance break, too.

• The writing rubric rules apply to writing mechanics (or Common Core Foundational and Language Skills) in fiction and non-fiction.

• They include: Start with a capital letter, then use lowercase, leave spaces between words, end with a period, write your name, and write neatly, about one topic.

• This writing rubric song is ideal for beginning writers (Pre-K, K, 1), and anyone who needs reminders of the writing mechanics.

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