I Can Write a Sentence.

Kindergarteners can write sentences.

     My students are exposed to sentence writing at the beginning of the year. Students quickly learn through lots of modeling  how sentences are written. The children do their best with inventive spelling, and their knowledge of the high frequency words introduced. As the school year progresses, students learn to write sentences using an uppercase letter, use finger spaces between words, use correct ending marks and use their very best handwriting. I display these "I can" posters in my classroom above their best work. You can find this product at my TPT store. You will receive the "I can" statements and writing paper with a check box list for students to self edit their work. This packet includes two different types of paper for differentiated instruction. The first paper is just one sided with a check box list for self editing. The second set of papers run off two sided for more advanced writers with the check box list on the back.
      By the spring, most of my students are proudly writing several sentences about a given topic. It is quite amazing to see the transformation the students make from the beginning of the year. Most students go from writing only a string of letters at their first attempts of writing a sentence at the beginning of the year to writing stories at the end of the year. When I show students their writing samples from the beginning of the year, they are in shock and can't believe that they used to write like that. 
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