Kindergarten Writing Scribbles to Stories® Unit 5: I Can Write A Story

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 5: I Can Write A Story builds upon students' ability to write sentences and puts those sentences together to write impactful and entertaining stories. Throughout this unit, students will plan, draft, revise, edit and publish a story that includes main and supporting characters, rising and falling action, multiple settings, and sensory imagery. Students will use tools like graphic organizers, checklists, and rubrics to develop their writing as well as learn to use essential sentence writing rules for capitalization and punctuation. Through vivid text examples and targeted lesson prompts, students will develop their skills as a budding author. They will continue their quality illustration skills from Unit 1, their phoneme isolation skills from Unit 2, their beginning decoding and word writing from Unit 3, and their sentence writing from Unit 4 as they learn how to write a sensory rich story, touch and reread their story in chronological order, use a rubric to self evaluate and improve their writing, publish a book and throw a launch party!

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!

Looking for the entire curriculum? Grab the full Scribbles to Stories® BUNDLE with a bonus poetry unit! 

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