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Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten ArticleReading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten Article
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Reading Rockets
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Pre-K - 1st
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English Language Arts
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Articles
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1090L
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Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten

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Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. In this article, he recommends some reasonable approaches, activities, and routines to help facilitate and teach writing in Kindergarten.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Additional Tags

k.w.1.1 write for specific purposes and audiences., oral composition, pretend writing, writing environment, writing

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RL.1.4 RL.1.10 W.K.1 L.K.6 W.1.7 L.1.2.e W.1.5 W.K.2 W.K.5 W.1.6 W.K.6 W.K.7

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