Kindergarten Form of Writing Narrative Assignments

							                                            Kindergarten Form of Writing: Narrative

                                Assignments: Personal Experience (small moment), Journal Entries

TRAITS
               Benchmark: Students will be able to select a topic, use detailed drawings and write at least three sentences. The
               sentences should describe the beginning, middle and end of the story.

Organization      •   Writing has a beginning, middle, and an end.

Ideas             •   Writing focuses on one topic or idea.
                  •   Illustrations enhance the writing.
                  •   Writing makes sense.
                  •   Ideas include a few interesting details

Voice             •   Writing uses feeling words to describe the topic.

Word Choice       •   Writing uses words correctly
                  •   Writing attempts to use descriptive words
                  •   Words match the illustration.

Sentence          •   Writing uses sentences.
Fluency           •   Sentences are easy to read.

Conventions       •   Writes left to right and top to bottom.
                  •   Writing uses spaces between words.
                  •   Writing uses phonetic spelling.
                  •   Writing shows high frequency words spelled consistently.
                  •   Writing has an uppercase letter at the beginning of the sentence and correct punctuation.