Objectives Overviews Early Kindergarten: Writing

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Your early kindergarten student will use pictures, letters, and words to express thoughts and ideas by:

Dictating stories to his Guide
Tracing and writing his name
Retelling stories
Telling about personal experiences

Your early kindergarten student will be able to show visual representations of ideas by:

Drawing pictures to share ideas and tell stories
Performing actions and stories in front of others

Your early kindergarten student will learn the written conventions of English by being able to:

Hold a pencil correctly
Correctly position elementary lined paper in front of himself
Trace the uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Write the uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Recognize the three purposes of writing: entertain, inform, and persuade

Your early kindergarten student will understand letter knowledge by:

Identifying the letters in his name
Identifying basic forms of punctuation
Associating the letter names with their sounds
Dictating a complete sentence to his Guide
Recognizing the shapes of the letters A – Z

Your early kindergarten student will be able to use his voice to communicate stories and ideas by learning to:

Recite short stories to an audience
Speak clearly to others
Change the tone of his voice as he recites stories