Transcript Kid writing - Academy Park High School

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
 Children see conventional writing during the underwriting
phase
 Mini-lessons are taught from the children’s work
 Students share their writing with classmates
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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
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Developmental Stages of
Writing
Level 1: Emerging
Makes uncontrolled or
unidentifiable scribbling
Level 2: Pictorial
Imitates writing
Draws somewhat
recognizable picture
Tells about picture
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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
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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)
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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
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Developmental Stages of
Writing
Level 6: Transitional
Correctly spells many highfrequency 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
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Developmental Stages of
Writing
Level 7: Conventional
Correctly spells many highfrequency 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.
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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
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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
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Steps in Kid writing
 Think about the story you want to share
 Draw a picture
 Kid writing
(guided phonics-based spelling)
The child writes the letter/sounds they hear.
Adult writing/Underwriting
Mini-lesson with the whole group
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Helpers In The Classroom
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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.
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Tips for Kid Writer Helpers
 Ask the child to tell you
about their drawing.
 Repeat the child’s story
back as one complete
sentence.
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“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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Examples of student work at
different levels
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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/de
mo.php>.
Digital pictures taken by Michele Thomas
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