English Language Arts Kindergarten (2023)
Lesson Plans

Writing (K.W)

Students will learn to write for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences using appropriate grammar/conventions, syntax, and style.

Standard K.W.4:

Participate in shared writing projects.

• Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences
  Students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity, focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events.
• Kindergarten Animal Writing Lesson Plan
  In this lesson, students will write and illustrate 3 facts about an animal and make a recording of themselves reading their facts to make a movie clip in iMovie.
• Kindergarten Lesson Ideas: Code & Go Mouse
  This is a list of potential ideas based off a specific technology. None of these ideas are fully developed lessons. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.
• Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
  Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
• Poetry Suitcase
  Students in K-5 enjoy this lesson during their "Library Time" every year during the month of April, which is National Poetry Month.

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