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This unit focuses on beginner writing skills for kindergarten students over 8-10 weeks. Students will learn to draw, label, and write sentences with invented spelling to describe their opinions. They will add more details to drawings and have discussions to develop their writing and understanding.

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EDU603 Unit 4 Blog

This unit focuses on beginner writing skills for kindergarten students over 8-10 weeks. Students will learn to draw, label, and write sentences with invented spelling to describe their opinions. They will add more details to drawings and have discussions to develop their writing and understanding.

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Kindergarten: Beginner Writers

This unit is a 8-10 week study around beginner writing skills. Kindergarten students learn the
early stages of writing: Drawing, labeling, and formation of a sentence. Students learn from
teacher modeling and independent practice to practice their skills. Students will progressively
add more detail to their drawings, including setting, facial expression, clothes, characters,
colors, and more. Labels will be added to continue contributing detail, and lastly, a sentence
will be written with invented spelling to describe their answer to an opinion question, along
with a detailed drawing. Kindergartners will practice discussing their opinions and drawing
and writing about these opinions. Essential questions will launch the unit and be developed
as students progress through the beginning stages of writing.

STAGE 1- STANDARDS/GOALS
What should students understand, know, and be able to do? Stage one identifies the desired
results of the unit including the related state content standards and expected performances,
enduring understandings, essential questions, knowledge and skills.

Content Standard(s)

Generalizations about what students should know and be able to do.

Content Standards Primary Expected Performances

W.K.1 Use a combination of drawing, -Drawing illustrations that show their answer
dictating, and writing to compose opinion to an opinion question about various topics.
pieces in which they tell a reader the topic -Students add labels and sentences about
or the name of the book they are writing their opinion, or dictate this to a teacher.
about and state an opinion or preference
about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite
book is . . .).

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W.K.5 With guidance and support from - Students evaluate their peers
adults, respond to questions and drawings. Students revise their
suggestions from peers and add details to drawings based on their peer feedback
strengthen writing as needed. to add more detail.

W.K.6 With guidance and support from - Students use their tablet to create a
adults, explore a variety of digital tools to digital image that expresses their
produce and publish writing, including in answer to an opinion question.
collaboration with peers. Students partake in a 'gallery walk' to
view each others digital images, and
make comments or questions to
engage in conversation about their
peer's response.

SL.K.1 Participate in collaborative Students engage in meaningful


conversations with diverse partners about discourse about their opinions and
kindergarten topics and their drawings and writing. Students
texts with peers and adults in small and have conversations by asking
larger groups. questions, following norms, and
SL.K.1 Follow agreed-upon rules for answering a question comprehensibly.
discussions (e.g., listening to others and
taking turns speaking
about the topics and texts under
discussion).
SL.K.1 Continue a conversation through
multiple exchanges.
SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visual displays
to descriptions as desired to provide
additional detail.
SL.K.6 Speak audibly and express thoughts,
feelings, and ideas clearly.

Enduring Understandings Essential Questions


Insights learned from exploring
generalizations via the essential questions
(Students will understand THAT…)
K-12 enduring understandings are those Inquiry used to explore generalizations
understandings that should be developed
over time, they are not expected to be
mastered over one unit or one year.

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Overarching Enduring Understandings: What do details add to drawings?
Students will understand how adding detail Why is writing important?
to our writing helps us learn. How can editing and revising our work
make it, and us better?
Unit Specific Enduring Understanding: How do conversations help us learn?
Students will understand why we label our
pictures.
Students will understand why details make
our pictures tell a viewer more information.

Knowledge and Skills

What students are expected to know and be able to do

Knowledge
The students will know…
Students will know what a label is and what an opinion is.
Students will know what details are in both drawing and writing.

Skills
The students will be able to…
Students will be able to draw a picture with detail.
Students will be able to label a picture with words.
Students will be able to label a picture by writing a sentence using invented spelling.
Students will be able to have a conversation that is on topic to a question with a peer by
taking turns, extending with a question, and restating the question.
Students will be able to revise their writing and drawing

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