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This underwater-themed worksheet gets your kindergartener writing about a scaly sea creature--or a pet goldfish.
- Level 1: Scribbles
- Level 2: Needs Full Support to Copy
- Level 3: Magic 'Squiggle' Writing and Some Known Sounds
- Level 4: Simple Sentences with A Combination of Sounds and Scribbles
- Level 5: Simple Sentences
- Level 6: Independent Longer Sentences with Attempts at Trickier Words
- The Next Steps
Young children write using scribbles or nonsense symbols. They may insert or copy some letters, but the sentence is essentially unreadable. They might also put a full stop (period) after every word.
Students dictate their own sentences (or sentence fragments) for the teacher to scribe and cut up. Students sort the group of words and put them in the correct order (this may require teacher assistance) and then copy. There may be limited spaces between words and/or letter reversals. Some teaching tips for this phase includes: 1. If a child is sti...
Students attempt to copy sentence starters and write some common high-frequency or sight words. They attempt to sound out some words or write the first sound that they can hear, and use squiggles or ‘magic writing’ for the rest (where they use squiggles for the parts of the word that they cannot sound out). Spaces may or may not be apparent between...
Students have a basic understanding of correct sentence structure. They copy sentence starters and write some common high-frequency words. They attempt to sound out words, but may flip or muddle some sounds or rely on ‘magic’ writing for some words. This is where they use squiggles for the parts of the word that they cannot sound out. They may also...
Students are able to independently attempt full meaningful sentences about a simple subject without relying on a sentence starter or squiggles/magic writing. However, when writing sentences, they will stick to known high-frequency words and simple decodable words which they are able to sound out themselves. They sometimes remember spaces between wo...
Students are able to independently attempt a full sentence. They attempt to sound out increasingly tricky words and write the sounds that they can hear. They may include letter patterns that they have seen in other words (e.g. ‘or’ in saw). They sometimes forget capitals, spaces or full stops. They may sometimes revert back to squiggle/magic writin...
To learn more about 'where to next', download my free Kindergarten Writing guide.This includes the next steps for Kindergarten and first grade students, where students include different parts of speech and explore using different punctuation marks e.g. exclamation mark or question mark. Students may begin writing short paragraphs in their creative ...
These Kindergarten Writing Worksheets include various sentence writing and building activities like tracing sentences, reading and writing sentences, complete the sentences, scramble sentences and write your own sentence.
This early literacy page features several printable worksheets with writing and tracing activities to help young students read and write the sight word fish. Worksheet 1: Fish FREE. On this worksheet, students will color the word, color the letters in the word, trace the word, and write the word in a sentence. View PDF.
- Use the word bank to write sentences and draw pictures. Unscramble the jumbled sentences. Full sentences vs fragments. Types of sentences (statements, questions, exclamations)
- Rewrite fragments as full sentences. Write full sentences with 2 nouns and a verb. Simple or compound sentence? Combine 2 simple sentences to form a compound sentence.
- Fragments vs full sentences. Simple and compound sentences. Simple and complex sentences. Simple, compound and complex sentences.
- Sentence fragments. Run-on sentences. Introductory clauses. Double negatives. Combining sentences. Subjects and predicates. Direct objects.
My Teaching Sentences in Kindergarten slideshow includes 220 slides with a variety of interactive practice opportunities, ending punctuation, Sentence of the Day templates, and much more. It's everything you need to start the process in one handy place!
These worksheets introduce students to reading, tracing, writing and unscrambling simple sentences, a natural progression from the study of individual sounds (phonics) and words (vocabulary). Trace the sentences. Spacing between words. Read, trace and re-write sentences.
