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Kid Writing

Kid Writing. Michele Thomas. What is Kid Writing?. A systematic approach to phonics, journal writing, and Writing Workshop Helps children understand the process of sounding out words Helps children learn the sound/letter relationships

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Kid Writing

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  1. Kid Writing Michele Thomas

  2. What is Kid Writing? • A systematic approach to phonics, journal writing, and Writing Workshop • Helps children understand the process of sounding out words • Helps children learn the sound/letter relationships • Children see conventional writing during the underwriting phase • Mini-lessons are taught from the children’s work • Students share their writing with classmates

  3. Benefits • Reading and writing are reciprocal processes, each strengthens the other. • As children become writers they: • begin to focus their attention on print in the environment • use their visual memory to write words

  4. Developmental Stages of Writing • Level 1: Emerging • Makes uncontrolled or unidentifiable scribbling • Level 2: Pictorial • Imitates writing • Draws somewhat recognizable picture • Tells about picture

  5. Developmental Stages of Writing • Level 3: Precommunicative • Write to convey a message; attempts to read it back • Uses letter-like forms and/or random letter strings • Prints own name or occasional known word

  6. Developmental Stages of Writing • Level 4: Semiphonetic • Correctly uses some letters to match sounds • May use one beginning letter to write a word • Usually writes left to right (may reverse some letters)

  7. Developmental Stages of Writing • Level 5: Phonetic • Represents beginning and ending sounds • Spells some high-frequency words correctly in sentences • Includes some vowels (often not correct ones) • Writes one or more sentences with spaces

  8. Developmental Stages of Writing • Level 6: Transitional • Correctly spells many high-frequency words in sentences • Uses vowels in most syllables (may not be correct) • Begins to use simple punctuation (may not be correct) • Writes more than one sentence

  9. Developmental Stages of Writing • Level 7: Conventional • Correctly spells many high-frequency words (more than one sentence). • Larger correctly spelled vocabulary:may use phonetic spelling for advanced words. • Usually using capital and lowercase letters and periods and question marks correctly.

  10. Developmental Stages of Writing • Level 8: Advanced • Uses a rich, varied vocabulary • Mays still use phonics-based spelling for advanced words • Have mastered the spelling of commonly used words • Uses quotation marks, comma and apostrophes correctly • Usually organizes writing into appropriate paragraphs

  11. Getting started in the classroom • Break into smaller groups • Sit around the teacher/aide/volunteer • Open up writing notebook to the next page • Date stamp the page • Pass out a bag of markers to each child

  12. Steps in Kid writing • Think about the story you want to share • Draw a picture • Kid writing (guided phonics-based spelling) • The child writes theletter/soundsthey hear. • Adult writing/Underwriting • Mini-lesson with the whole group

  13. Helpers In The Classroom

  14. Stretching Words the Right Way • Adults help children do the kid writing by: • slowly sounding out the ENTIRE word • exaggerating key consonant sounds • One key sound per word may be appropriate at the beginning of the year. • Encourage students to “write the letters you think you hear.” • Often children will write inappropriate letters and that’s okay for now.

  15. Tips for Kid Writer Helpers • Ask the child to tell you about their drawing. • Repeat the child’s story back as one complete sentence.

  16. “S-T-R-E-T-C-H” Words • Say them slowly but DON’T break them down into individual sounds • Say, “Watch my mouth and tell me what you hear when I say_____.” • Have them write what they hear.

  17. What if …. • The child has no idea what letter makes the sound? • Encourage the child to use a magic line. • (a horizontal blank line). • The child hears the letter but does not know how to write it? • Refer to the alphabet chart. • You are working with a small group and other children say the sound/letter to help out, • Say to the child writing, “Write what you hear.” • Say to the other students, “Thanks for helping.”

  18. Praise the Child for Their Great Writing! • Underwrite the story in adult writing. • Point out any elements in the kid writing that matched the adult writing. • Read the story back with the child, pointing to each word as you read the adult writing. • Have the child read the story back pointing to the words as they read.

  19. Cautions • Please be careful of: • Spelling • Printing clearly • Using capital letters ONLY where they belong PRAISE the child for their attempts and IGNORE the mistakes.

  20. Examples of student work at different levels

  21. Citations • Feldgus, Eileen, and Isabell Cardonick. Kid Writing. 2nded. Chicago, IL: Wright Group, 1999. • "At&t Labs." Text-to-Speech. 2 Dec 2007 <http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php>. Digital pictures taken by Michele Thomas • Feldgus, Eileen, and Isabell Cardonick. Kid Writing. 2nd • ed. Chicago, IL: Wright Group, 1999.Ā

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