How to Build the Best Kindergarten Writing Program Ever

My colleagues and I are passionate about teaching young writers. We blog about our own action-research documentation because we want you to see what is happening in REAL kindergartens with exemplary writing instruction. 

 In these writing workshop classrooms, we: 

• raised our expectations, 
• used authentic, multisensory teaching and learning strategies 
• provided systematic encoding practice 
• built circles of writing mastery with "heart word" sentences 
• invited students to write and draw all day long—across the curriculum. 

These writing strategies are transformative! 

I care about excellence in kindergarten literacy, and I want each blog to convey the best, most concise message, so I labor over the words. I hope they inspire your teaching journey! Remember: As we challenge ourselves to become better teachers of writing, we will watch our kindergartners become even better writers year after year.