Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting, Phonics, and Word Work

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New 2018 Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting, Phonics, and Word Work

Teachers' Guide, 30 Essential Handwriting Lessons (plus 40 essential resource pages), a-z student practice pages, and MasterClass Intensive Power Guide (with gift folder of samples of assembled name practice book and Little Books)

Program Includes:

  • Detailed, 115-page spiral bound Teachers' Guide.
  • 30 Essential Kindergarten Handwriting Lessons include 30 pages of large group, authentic handwriting lessons with 40 additional bonus pages, bound into one book, PLUS individual templates of all pages: Little Books, drawing models, parent letters, handwriting chants, and assessment pages. (Consider organizing these using sleeves in a 3-ring binder!)
  • A-Z student practice book of writing templates with cover page and assessments integrated. One (1) bound sample student notebook included.
    • 95% of the writing students do is with lowercase letters: most of the 33 practice pages are for lowercase letters, designed in a writing to read format with real words and sentences.
  • Kindergarten Handwriting MasterClass with Nellie Edge in a step-by-step Power Guide reflecting this program as a Live Workshop by Nellie Edge.
  • Gift Folder: includes assembled Parent Name Writing Practice Book and enlarged Little Books for writing friend’s names.

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Part of a Comprehensive Writing Framework

We recommend that teachers use this Kindergarten-Friendly™ Handwriting, Phonics, and Word Work program as a part of a comprehensive writing framework in tandem with authentic word work activities and engaging literacy lessons.

We introduce the expectation of good handwriting to children and parents from the first days of school with daily name writing practice. (We send “Name Ticket” practice books for families to use at home.) In addition to individual work on names, we provide whole group handwriting instruction through multisensory songs and chants with movement patterns and fingerspelling using powerful high-frequency “heart words”. We begin with “I”, “love”, “you”, “Mom”, “Dad”, “cat” and “dog”. Our integrated literacy lessons use wipe-off boards as teaching tools and independent writing centers to practice handwriting skills in an authentic context. (We write messages and books!) Our purpose is always to incorporate handwriting into authentic writing experiences—and not isolated drill. Whole group beginning lessons focus on teaching basic handwriting motions, directional language, awareness of shapes, and seeing like an artist. Instruction transitions into small group, differentiated lessons using the children’s individual a-z writing and drawing books. Every teacher chooses the timing and instructional framework that works best for their unique group of individual learners; some teachers wait to use the actual a-z writing and drawing book as a whole class review as late as January, giving special attention to the less experienced writers.

Sample Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting, Phonics, and Word Work pagesSample Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting, Phonics, and Word Work pages

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(samples of 30 Essential Lessons)

 

2018 Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting MasterClass with Nellie Edge on TpT

Also available on TPT: 2018 Kindergarten-Friendly Handwriting MasterClass with Nellie Edge in a step-by-step Power Guide reflecting this program as a Live Workshop by Nellie Edge

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