Blaine School District Curriculum Map Draft

Kindergarten Writing

Date: Fall 2008

	ESSENTIAL QUESTION (optional)	CONTENT	SKILLS	ASSESSMENT	RESOURCE
August
September		2.4.1 Personal information 3.2.3 Sentence fluency (continue all year)	· Writes own name · Participates in shared reading/writing of poems, songs, chants, and prose	Teacher observation	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
October		2.1.1 Audience 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2 Prewrite, Draft, Draw/Write (continue all year)	· Draws, writes for self, family, friends, and teacher · Chooses topic, draws, labels	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
November		1.3.1, 3.2.1 Revising 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3 Writing conventions 1.4.1 Editing (continue all year)	· Adds detail · Applies directionality, phonetic spelling, spacing of letters · Calls out punctuation and capitalization in shared writing	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
December		3.2.2 Vocabulary 3.2.3 Sentence fluency (continue all year)	· Builds vocabulary through shared reading, writing · Uses words from environmental print, classroom resources	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
January		1.3.1 Revising (continue all year)	· Finds something that can be improved in writing	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
February		2.2.1 and 2.3.1 Writing for different purposes, different genre (continue all year)	· Draws, writes to communicate with others in a variety of forms	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
March		1.4.1 Editing 1.5.1 Publishing (continue all year)	· Punctuation and capitalization during shared writing, with partner · Shares published work	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
April		3.3.3 Capitalization 3.3.4 Conventions (continue all year)	· Capitalizes “I”, 1^st letter in name, identifies capitals in shared reading, writing · Observes ending punctuation	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
May		4.1.1, 4.1.2 Criteria to analyze writing 4.2.1 Identify goals for own writing (continue all year)	· Discusses preferred authors, stories and develop criteria for analyzing writing · Confers with teacher to set goals	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell
June		Writing Process	· Teacher re-teaches, reviews steps of writing process as needed for group, individuals	Teacher observation On-going assessment	Lucy Caulkins Writing Workshop Handwriting Without Tears Fountas & Pinnell