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Kindergarten is a pivotal year for young writers. Kindergarteners learn the alphabet and use it to form their first short words. Our kindergarten writing worksheets allow your young scholar to practice writing letters, sight words, and short sentences. Visual tracing and writing exercises will reinforce letter recognition. When they are familiar with all of the letters, move onto our basic kindergarten writing sentences worksheets.
Tips for Teaching Kindergarten Writing
There are two main aspects of learning to write; learning the shape of the letters and building the fine-motor skills necessary for good pencil-grip. These fine motor worksheets are particularly helpful for the latter. Here are some other ideas for working those hand muscles:
- Dot-to-dots, mazes, and coloring pages are a great way for kids to work on their pencil-grip and also build a fun association with the act of writing.
- Play-dough and other clay-based crafts are a wonderful way to work hand muscles.
- Make delicious necklaces out of Cheerios. The act of picking up and stringing the small pieces of cereal mimics the hand muscles needed for pencil grip.
Writing Activities for Your Kindergartener
Kindergartners are often enthusiastic writers and they will weave writing activities into their play. Provide budding writers with experiences that give them something to write about. Invented spelling is normal at this age, as children are translating the sounds of spoken words into writing.
Children at this age can read their own writing and should be encouraged to read aloud!
Young children often mirror what they see around them: adults and older children writing lists, letters, text messaging. So make sure your child sees you writing! And talk about why you are writing about your writing so your child begins to understand why writing is important and the many ways it can be used.
Don't correct spelling and handwriting at this stage. Child specialists say “invented spelling” is just fine.
Your role is to make writing fun and purposeful.
Invented spelling: your child’s first writing
This video is from Home Reading Helper, a resource for parents to elevate children’s reading at home provided by Read Charlotte. Find more video, parent activities, printables, and other resources at Home Reading Helper.
What does kindergarten writing look like?
Try these writing ideas at home
Label it
Young children love to name things! Ask your child to write out labels for the rooms and objects in your house. Don't worry about invented spellings! Help your child safely tape them up for temporary display.
See a real-life example in this blog post, Using but confusing, with laundry.
List maker
Ask your child to help you make a grocery list or a "to-do" list for weekend chores. Your child can dictate the list as you write, to model the process. Then switch roles, and ask your child to write the list as you dictate.
Family letters
Help your child write letters to relatives and friends. These may include thank you notes or just a special note to say hello. Be sure to send your child a letter or card once in awhile too so that she is reminded of how special it is to get a letter in the mail. And consider finding a pen pal for your child.
Family stories
Ask your child to draw a picture of a family activity and then write a sentence about it below the picture. Encourage your child to say the sentence and write letters to match the sounds in each word. Then have your child read what she wrote. Display the story on the refrigerator or a bulletin board — and celebrate the work!
First stories
Ask your child to tell you simple stories as you write them down.
Copy the story as your child tells it, without making changes. Ask her to clarify anything you don't understand. Soon, your child will be writing her own stories. Here's a wonderful example of a story by a 5-year-old in the blog post, I like Writer's Workshop.
Author's chair
Identify a special "author's chair" in your home. That's where your child can sit and share out loud something she has written. Be an enthusiastic listener! This shows your child that others want to hear about her thoughts and ideas.
Reader's theater
Encourage your child to read her stories out loud. Listen carefully with patience, and give positive feedback about her ideas and her writing!
Bookmaker
Turn your child's writing into books! Paste her drawings and writings on pieces of construction paper. For each book, make a cover out of heavier paper or cardboard, and add special art, a title, and her name as author. Punch holes in the pages and cover, and bind the book together with yarn or ribbon.
Field notes
Encourage your child to take notes on trips or outings, and to describe what she saw, using all of her senses. This could include a description of a walk outside, a ride in a car or a bus, or other events that lend themselves to note taking.
Message board
Hang a family message board in the kitchen and leave notes there for your child. Encourage your child to write a message back and post it to the board.
Reading supports writing
Read books together! Early and frequent exposure to letters, sounds, words, and stories helps kids learn to read and write.
Talk about vivid words
As you read to your children, point out things the book author did to make the book so fun to read. "Wow! Listen to how the author describes the ocean. Don't those words make you feel like you're back jumping over waves?"
Get your kindergartner writing!
This video is from Home Reading Helper, a resource for parents to elevate children’s reading at home provided by Read Charlotte.
Find more video, parent activities, printables, and other resources at Home Reading Helper.
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90,000 Parents about the violation of the letter | MKU DPO "GTsOiZ "Master"But if for an adult writing is a highly automated skill, then for a student it is a complex process that is formed consciously in the learning process.
The letter consists of a chain of successive actions. To write a word, the child must determine its sound structure, the sequence and place of each sound, correlate the selected sound with a certain image of the letter, reproduce the letter with the help of hand movements.
In order to write a sentence, it is necessary to mentally build it, speak it, maintain the desired order of writing, break the sentence into its constituent words, and mark the boundaries of each word.
Some children have great difficulty learning these skills. Children, knowing the alphabet, find it difficult to compose a word from letters or make mistakes when writing it (omission, replacement of letters, designation of softness of consonants, writing prepositions with words together; separate spelling of words, etc.).
Parents are not always able to explain why their children make mistakes. Many people think that this is inattention and, trying to correct mistakes, they begin to work intensively with the child on writing from dictation. The child develops a negative attitude towards writing. To avoid this, it is necessary to analyze the child's mistakes.
Mistakes such as omission of vowels, permutation of letters, additions of letters, omissions, additions, permutations of syllables, merged spelling of words, separate spelling of words, merged spelling of prepositions with other words, separate spelling of prefixes and roots arise due to difficulty in dividing sentences into words , words into syllables, sounds.
Replacement of letters denoting whistling and hissing, voiced and deaf, hard and soft u, o-y e-i) are observed due to a violation of differentiation, recognition of close speech sounds. Sometimes the writing reflects a faulty pronunciation. The reason for the occurrence of substitutions and distortions in the writing of graphically similar handwritten letters (i-sh, p-t, t-sh, v-d, b-d, l-m, e-s, etc.) is the lack of formation of visual-spatial representations. The underdevelopment of the grammatical structure of speech in writing is manifested in a change in case endings, incorrect use of prepositions, gender, number, omissions of sentence members, violations of the sequence of words in a sentence, etc.
If there are any of the constantly recurring specific mistakes in the child's work, then we can talk about a violation of writing (dysgraphia), which is a serious obstacle in the acquisition of literacy by students at the initial stages and mastering the grammar of the native language at later stages.
In this case, it is necessary to contact a school teacher-speech therapist. In addition to the work of a speech therapist to correct dysgraphia, parents should also be active in helping to overcome speech therapy errors in writing in their children.
What should parents do?
- Pay attention to hygienic rules for writing (correct posture when writing, holding the pen correctly, tilting the notebook).
- When choosing stationery, choose pens or pencils with ribbed or pimpled finishes. Massaging the pads of the fingers is important for the proper functioning of the brain when writing.
- The main task in handwriting correction will be writing small texts in a notebook in a cell, where each letter is written in a separate cell. Small handwriting is more difficult to correct than large and uneven.
- If the school asks you to write long texts, break it up into parts and write it down, pronouncing each word.
- When copying, it is necessary to teach the child as early as possible to memorize the syllable, not the letter, since the syllable is the main unit in reading and writing.
- Every day write short dictations with a pencil, but do not correct mistakes, but mark the words in which they are made. The child will be able not to cross out, but to find and erase his mistakes, write correctly.
- Be sure to teach your child to pronounce the words when writing, first out loud, then in a whisper, a hidden inner voice. If pronunciation is prohibited, the writing becomes worse, the number of errors associated with missing letters increases. When pronouncing a word by syllables, the student's visual and auditory channels of perception are included in the work.
- Use surfaces around the house to display posters and signs to help your child remember the correct spelling of words.
- Praise your child for every success.
- Evaluate the child's work, not the child.
What not to do?
- Do not force your child to read large texts, write large dictations with him.
- Don't try to speed up your reading.
- Do not make homework rewritten many times, this will not only increase the number of mistakes, but also instill uncertainty in the child.
- Exclude jobs of type "Fix the bug". Teach them not to make mistakes, but do not offer to correct them.
- If you decide to teach your child to write without errors, then do not pay attention to ugly handwriting. Don't try to fix all bugs at the same time.
- Do not get irritated, do not scold, and even more so, do not punish the child if he makes a mistake.
- Do not praise without reason.
We must not forget that a child should only hear competent speech in the family, see books in the hands of parents, feel your love and care. The child needs help, and if he persistently studies under your guidance, he will be able to master reading and writing.
Good luck!
Teacher-speech therapist TPMPC
I.V. Lavrekha
Writing classes with children 5–7 years old
Writing classes with children 5–7 years old
The time for boring copybooks is in the past!Stop torturing your child with endless hooks, dashes and circles. Seriously! Take and print out a couple of pages of copybooks. Feel like a first grader, start tracing these dotted lines. Just write with the hand you don't normally use. If you are right-handed, try writing with your left hand and vice versa. Well, how do you feel? Funny? Interesting? Exciting? So maybe a couple more pages? No?
So your children will say no. Because today's children are arranged differently. They are freer in every respect, they cannot stand violence and coercion.
Therefore, the most important task is not to force, but to interest. Feel the difference?
Sensitive period for writing
Beautiful fonts are everywhere. Advertising, signs, logos, labels, design of posts in social networks. It's great to try to write Coca-Cola yourself as beautifully as on a branded bottle. And this is much more interesting than writing, and the result is the same - we write, work out the slope, pressure, thickness, size, smoothness and many other subtleties of writing.
There is such a thing as " sensitive period" - this is the period of the child's natural interest in any activity. The sensitive period for reading is 3 years, and for writing 4–5 years. Yes, it is at the age of 4-5 that a child begins to take an interest in writing. Not by drawing - we all love this, almost from the cradle - but by writing. It is at 4–5 years old that a child awakens a keen interest in letters. Therefore, it is very important to support the baby and give the necessary tools so that he can easily develop and consolidate this interest in practice.
Moreover, starting to write with a pen in copybook ahead of time is a rather harmful occupation. Why? Because the muscles of the hand that are involved in writing are formed rather late. When a child is forced to write too early, in the vast majority of cases he writes like a chicken paw and this does not improve with age. The child gets used to using the wrong motor patterns. The earlier you force the child to write, the worse his handwriting. Yes, this is such a paradox.
Therefore, it is so important to start writing not with a pen, but with a brush. The correct position of the hand, the correct writing, begins with the hand.
The Magic Key of Writing
In writing classes, we not only practice hand placement, learn to write, train and work out the necessary motor patterns, but also learn to be interested in letters and love them. Letters are a separate sign system, a separate language! Cipher, code - you can call it in different ways. The main thing is that the essence does not change: letters are our guide to the wonderful world of written text.
It's like getting a magic key and opening the door to a wonderful and vast world of the unknown!
When a child masters writing, new opportunities for self-expression immediately open up for him. He starts signing his drawings, starts writing notes, he studies and experiments, expressing his ideas, thoughts, feelings. It's like changing a digging stick for an excavator - the field of possibilities is expanding significantly.
Your child will write calligraphy!
Many children in school have problems with writing just because they are taught incorrectly and the foundation is laid incorrectly. If you start with a pen and copybook, get ready for problems at school. You need to start with creative calligraphy. From a creative point of view, this is the key point. It is important that the child be interested, then he will really love the letters and will write with pleasure. Gradually, we will come to writing that same handwritten text with a pen in a notebook that everyone is dreaming about.
