Writing

Your First-Grader and Writing
First-graders write for many purposes and about different subjects by composing songs, stories, lists and poems. Your child learns the mechanics of writing, such as spelling and handwriting, as he/she works.

What will my first-grader learn about writing?

First-graders write daily about different topics. Your child may write by themselves, in small groups or with the whole class. They arae likely to write creative stories, letters, poems and songs.

They learn that there are different reasons for writing, such as sharing information or persuading the reader. They may write a patterned book (in which the same words and phrases are used repeatedly) that is modeled after a book read in class. Or they may contribute a page to a book the class creates.

First-graders typically write in a journal several times a week. This helps your child to build writing skills and develop ideas for stories. Children may write in their journals about any subject, such as what they did over the weekend.

We will begin by learning to construct a complete sentence.
Students need to:

*begin each sentence with a capital letter, captalize names, and proper nouns

*use appropriate spacing between each word

*use the appropriate end mark

(a period(.) at the end of a telling sentence)

(a question mark(?) at the end of an asking sentence)

(an exclamation mark(!) to show excitement)

Websites:

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/writing/Kids_Writing.html

http://www.education.com/activity/first-grade/writing/