Kid Writing 

What is the objective of Kid Writing?  Why do teachers like it?

    The goal of Kid Writing is to help our young students become better writers, which will ultimately lead them to become better readers as well.  This approach to writing is being accepted by many educators because it is teaching students how to write independently, be creative, and read words, all while helping them develop a love for writing at the same time.    

    

What is Kid Writing?

    Eileen Feldgus and Isabell Cardonick, the developers of Kid Writing, combined the ideas used with the whole language method and the "kids need phonics first method" to create Kid Writing.  It is an integrated approach to writing, in which phonics instruction is a systematic, rigorous, planned, and essential part of the fuller instructional program throughout the school day.  It focuses primarily on teaching phonics in the context of journal writing.  The systematicity of Kid Writing appears in the social interactions between teachers and children and in the attention to children's individual needs.

How parents can help at home -

      DO NOT TELL THEM THE LETTERS OR SOUNDS OF THE WORDS THEY ARE TRYING TO WRITE! Have them be detectives have them look at their a,b,c charts and find the sounds they hear at the beginning, the end  and if ready in the middle - c--, c-t, cat.

 When they are ready have them start looking on their hi-fi word chart for words they are learning.

After they are done is when you model the way we spell words and write the correct way under their kidwriting while commending them for the correct sounds.

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