Kindergarten Narrative Writing

Early this week, your child brought home a collection of narrative writing from October through December.  I hope you have enjoy sharing in this beginning writing with your child.  It may have looked something like this:

In January, we have been learning how to stretch our stories across pages.  This requires our Ks to tell stories in more detail and to think about sequence.  It might look like this:

We also learned how to use a special tool to help us make sure our story is complete:

Our story should have: characters, a setting, and at least 3 parts.  We want to make sure we show the "heart" of the story.  This shows how the author feels about this event in his/her left.

In Emilie's story above, her "heart" was when she got the sting ray stuffed animal at the end of her zoo trip.  She wrote, "I was happy."  We talked about that she can always remember her trip when she has her sting ray with her.

Here is another example:

 We are working on picking a "short & sweet" title :)

Wow, you can hear that heart of the story! :)

Here are some resources to support writing development at home:

25 Ways to Make Writing Fun

Kindergarten Writing Milestones

Kindergarten Developmental Writing Stages