Kindergarten Writing Curriculum Scribbles to Stories® Unit 3: I Can Write Words

Scribbles to Stories® is a 10 unit kindergarten writing curriculum for classroom and homeschool learning environments. It can be used in a workshop model setting, as shared writing, in structured literacy programs, in small groups, or as independent writing. Each unit comes with detailed daily lesson plans, mentor text guide with diverse and inclusive titles, student reference posters and anchor charts, writing paper options, check lists, graphic organizers, certificate, and classroom library bin label. The detailed lesson plans include a title, lesson goals to use for I Can statements, materials list, scripted portions, explicit instruction directions, and reflection invitations. Scribbles to Stories® is a comprehensive curriculum designed by a veteran kindergarten teacher, tested, tweaked, and perfected through countless years of use and hundreds of students taught. The lessons and materials are designed using Universal Design for Learning to best meet the needs of a diverse student population.

Unit 3: I Can Write Words builds upon students labeling skills, strengthens their phonetic spelling, and introduces students to using high frequency words in their writing. Throughout this unit students will begin to write entire words to describe their illustrations, add high frequency words to begin to craft short phrases, use tools like alphabet charts, color word charts, and check lists, and writing on lines will be introduced as well. Through vivid text examples and targeted lesson prompts, students will develop their skills as a budding author. They will not only continue their quality illustration skills from Unit 1, and their phoneme isolation skills form Unit 2, but also learn how to write about the important details of a story, touch and reread their story in chronological order, use multiple writing tools to improve their writing, use an editing and revision checklist, how to plan, write, revise, and publish a story, and throw a book launch party to celebrate their success!

With Scribbles to Stories® you can take the guesswork out of your writing block and know that you are providing a developmentally appropriate and sequenced writing program for your learners. This will be a full school year, 10 unit, curriculum with a new unit releasing each month! Let's become authors and illustrators!