Teaching Writing in Kindergarten: A Structured Approach to Daily Writing That Helps Every Child Become a Confident, Capable Writer - Softcover

Bergen, Randee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545054001 ISBN 13: 9780545054003

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2008

Synopsis

This smart, simple yearlong plan ensures that kindergartners write at or above a first-grade level by the end of the year.

This smart, simple approach ensures that kindergarteners write at or above a first-grade level by the end of the year. Master teacher Randee Bergen shares her yearlong plan for daily writing, providing complete lessons and tips for motivating all learners, managing writing time, and assessing children's work effectively and efficiently. Includes guided lessons for the whole group as well as individualized mini-lessons to support learners exactly where they need help.

About this title

About the Author

Randee Bergen's 17 years in the classroom have included teaching each grade, K through 6, as well as special education. Her experiences shaping writing instruction for older students and struggling learners and teaching her two daughters to write resulted in this novel and effective approach to developing a strong writing foundation for kindergarten students. Bergen has written articles on teaching students with learning disabilities and on reading and writing instruction for LD Forum and Connect, and contributed research findings to the Colorado State Department of Education's classroom research report. She currently teaches kindergarten in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545054001
• ISBN 13: 9780545054003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160