Kindergarten Writing Lessons & Printables | Step by Step Writing #2

Kindergarten Writing Lessons & Printables | Step by Step Writing #2

Extend your Kindergarten writing instruction with flexible, developmentally appropriate mini-lessons that introduce students to a variety of meaningful writing forms!

This second Step by Step writing unit helps young writers move beyond foundational sentence writing as they learn to create lists, cards, letters, news, pattern stories, wordless stories and fiction stories.

The lessons are presented in a suggested teaching order, but they can easily be repeated, divided across multiple days or rearranged based on your students’ needs. You could explore each type of writing for several days or an entire week, allowing this resource to support approximately 2–5 months of writing instruction.

 

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Writing Skills Covered:

✔ 14 flexible Kindergarten writing mini-lessons
✔ One optional “About the Author” lesson
✔ List-writing papers with a variety of prompts
✔ Colour and animal picture-reference charts
✔ Canadian and American spelling options
✔ Blank list-writing templates
✔ Card-writing lessons and reference helpers
✔ Birthday, holiday, thank-you, congratulations and get-well card prompts
✔ Wordless-story lessons, covers and booklet pages
✔ Letter-writing posters
✔ Differentiated letter-writing papers
✔ Classroom news writing paper
✔ Classroom news display titles
✔ Pattern-story lessons and booklet pages
✔ Capital-letter mini-lesson
✔ Fiction story-planning sheet
✔ Story-writing paper and cover
✔ Differentiated “About the Author” pages
✔ Half-page story-writing booklet
✔ “I Can Write a…” bulletin board cards
✔ Writing bulletin board example
✔ Labels for organizing writing-centre materials
✔ Alternate wordless-story cover

The main resource is a 79-page printable PDF. An alternate wordless-story cover and the previous version of the resource are also included as separate files.

 

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Flexible for Different Writers:

The lessons and printables can be used with the entire class or adapted for students working at different stages of writing development.

Use this resource during:

✔ Whole-group writing mini-lessons
✔ Guided writing
✔ Small-group instruction
✔ Independent writing at the writing centre
✔ Writing intervention

 

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Please Note:

Two lessons are designed around specific mentor texts:

• Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells
• Chalk by Bill Thomson

These books are not included. Additional mentor-text suggestions are provided, and the lessons may also be adapted using similar books you already own.

 

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Also in this series:

• Step by Step #1: Kindergarten Writing Plans
• Step by Step #3: Guided Writing & Assessments

 

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Save with the bundle:

This resource is included in the Step by Step: Kindergarten Writing Bundle.

Please do not purchase this resource separately if you already own the complete writing bundle.

 

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Update history:

07.10.21 – An alternate wordless-story cover was added by buyer request.