Updated March 2024
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1. Build a consistent, dependable writing workshop routine that honors kid writers with choice of topic, differentiated learning, individual coaching, and carefully-crafted minilessons.
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3. Teach kindergartners—with Parents as Partners—to build fluency with two kinds of words: a growing collection of writing-to-read heart words they are expected to know “by heart” and words they learn to listen to, stretch through, and use phonics-based spelling for. Use “quick writes” (encode sounds to print) to build sequential sound segmentation skills.
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5. Understand the stages of early writing development and how to build appropriate assessment and carefully-crafted minilessons. Share writing development photos with parents and ask: “Where do you think your child is right now as a writer?” We see a four-year span of writing development for students entering kindergarten.
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7. Build the reading and writing brain. Simultaneously incorporate multisensory ABC Phonics Immersion, fingerspelling, handwriting, phonics and “heart word” sentences into a comprehensive writing program.
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