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PK Student Proficiency Levels: Standard 8 Independent Writing

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Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

Students will read and write for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, academic and personal.

 

WRITING: Students will write independently for extended periods of time. Students will vary their modes of expression to suit audience and task.

 

 
 

Understanding

Connection to Standards

 

Approaching

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Students can communicate thoughts and ideas through a combination of drawing and emergent writing with help from the teacher.


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 Students will express their ideas through a combination of drawing and emergent writing with guidance and support.

 


 

*Once students demonstrate an understanding of an objective, consider a deeper acquisition of those skills.

 

Developing

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Students will begin to communicate their ideas through drawing with help from the teacher.

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Students may make marks or drawings on a page. 

 

Instructional Guidance

 

Developing

  • Ask questions, as needed, to help student express ideas.

  • Scaffold discussion about what could be drawn to represent thought, then model simple drawing.

  • Help student with drawing, if needed, but be sure to encourage and use specific praise for their drawing to help build confidence for future drawing and writing.

Approaching

  • Model drawing to represent an idea.

  • Use guided drawing activities that pertain to the topic.

  • Give specific praise and encouragement to build confidence, then use scaffolding to aid in future drawings to communicate.

Understanding

  • Give students opportunities to express ideas.

  • Continue to model drawing ideas to give students examples to work towards for improvement.

  • Model isolating the beginning sound of word to label drawing, then model segmenting word for use of invented spelling to label drawing.

  • Shared writing or “share the pen” may be used to make the writing process more interactive.

  • Give specific praise and encouragement, then use scaffolding to aid in the writing process.

Deeper Acquisition

  • Model writing the complete word by segmenting sounds in the word with students.

  • Model writing a simple sentence to describe the picture, letting students dictate the sentence.

  • Shared writing or “share the pen” may be used to make the writing process more interactive.

  • Give specific praise and encouragement, then use scaffolding to aid in the writing process.

  • Do a think aloud to add details to pictures, letting students offer suggestions for details.

  • Give students opportunities to use invented spelling to label or write a simple sentence to describe drawings.

  • Encourage students to add details to drawings by asking questions about their pictures.

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