Daily Writing Journals for Kindergarten | Directed Drawing Handwriting Sentences
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Do you need a simple, yet effective daily writing activity that will help build independent writers? These phonics-based daily writing journals for Kindergarten combine multiple skills of drawing, handwriting, and sentence writing for an all-in-one writing warm-up activity. Use this daily to watch your students become independent and confident writers!
These Daily Writing Journals can be used as Morning Work, writing center, independent work or as a warm-up activity for all of your writing lessons. They are aligned to Kindergarten Common Core Standards, focusing on both writing and phonics standards.
Here's what you'll get:
- 180 Daily Writing Journal Pages with
- Handwriting Practice
- Directed Drawing
- Sentence Writing
- Phonics-Based Skill each day
- Google Slides version
- How to Use
- Differentiation Ideas
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The Daily Phonics-Based Writing Journal was designed to give your students more practice with writing skills that there never seems to be enough time for: handwriting and drawing.
Handwriting Practice
After the first few weeks of school, we stop teaching handwriting daily. Our students stop focusing on forming each letter correctly and more on just writing as fast as they can. With these daily writing journals, students will spend time daily on handwriting practice, without adding additional handwriting activities to their writing lesson.
Directed Drawings
The directed drawings were created to help your students learn how to draw 180 basic pictures, using simple lines and shapes. They will follow the step-by-step drawing example, then add details to make it their own. Your students will be more confident with drawing on their own, using the drawing skills they’ve learned throughout the rest of their writing activities.
Phonics-Based
Each day focuses on a different phonics skill to combine what they are learning in their phonics instruction with a writing activity. Students will isolate the phonics sound in the word that they are drawing and practice writing the letter, word, or phonics pattern. When students are able to phonetically spell words, their writing ability will improve as they use more words when writing.
Here are the phonics skills that are included:
- Letter Sounds: A-Z (X is ending sound)
- Ending Sounds:
- Short Vowels/Word Families:
- CVC Words
- Digraphs
- Consonant Blends
- CVCe Words
- Long Vowels
- Additional Practice with Mono-Syllabic and Multi-Syllabic words
Just print and go! These daily writing journals can be used throughout the year to continually review handwriting, drawing, and sentence writing. You can make these daily writing journals into a spiral-bound journal, display them on your SMART Board to use your own notebooks, or just print them daily.
Try a free sample of this resource here!
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TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I love the directed drawing part of this resource! It really helps and gives confidence to the students who have difficulty drawing (and their teacher!). We love it!" -Rebecca H.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"This is so easy for me to prepare for my students. I love how engaged they are in the pages and I can't wait to put all of the pages together for the kids at the end of the year!" -Amanda T.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Love that this establishes a daily handwriting routine...so easy!" -Suzy J.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I can't wait to use this with my class this year. I believe this will really foster and improve writing and drawing skills. I plan on using it in my k/1 class and get my ones to use the sentence starter to write their own sentence. I'm excited for this one." -Elena P.
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