Teachers! What form of writing do you use in your preschool classroom?

Question

situations where a child dictates and you write, or any art experiences where a child expresses and idea or feeling.

Answer 1

All capitals and then i teach to write them cursive.

Diff. alphabets should be of diff. colours.

Answer 2

D'Nealian

Answer 3

Can you be more specific with the question?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I feel that writing can be used in a variety of ways in a classroom. We use child dictation. We also practice writing our names and letters of the week. We use journals for practice writing(they don't have to know how to write, just as long as they practice). We put a notebook and pencils in all of their centers so they can pretend write. They might want to pretend to write down orders in a home living center, or write plans in a construction center, just as long as they practice without a lot of pressure.

Answer 6

If a child has drawn a picture and you ask them what they drew, you as their teacher write down exactly what the child says.

Answer 7

Printing? Im not exactly sure i know what your getting at? Are you talking about printing versus cursive?

Answer 8

Usually a child will draw and color a picture about some type of experience. Perhaps a nature walk the class just took. Then the teacher asks each child about the picture and has the child dictate a sentence about the picture.

If you are asking what this is called, it is language experience writing.

Answer 9

As for the type that we use---corresponds with what is being taught in the local schools---ballandstick (traditional).

Types of writing:  Dictation-Shared writing (more of a small group activity), independent writing (encouraged more in the fine motor/writing center), tracing (yes :-) I find that there are usually a few children who are ready for learning how to write their letters more "formally".  This is not a "have to" but a binder placed in the writing center with dry-erase markers.  

An activity that I did recently :-)  Bird theme:  We read the book Robin in Their Chicks.  For art we did a blue chalk and paper collage (a variety of types). Children cut an egg shape  out first.  (Robin Eggs).  Then I had a "nest" cut out of manilla paper and the children rubbed brown crayon all over the nest and then glued on strips of brown raffia.  Then they "wrote" facts on brown paper twigs and glued to the nest.  One child wrote : "Mom RObins R cold hens." (Mom robins are called hens).  Goes to prove that some children are ready to move forward beyond their name!  It turned out very very cute and the children were proud of their work.  It's a good review of information after reading a non-fiction book as well.  Any type of writing was accepted on the twigs...if the children wanted the adult to dictate that was acceptable as well.

Answer 10

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Shared writing- If you have a letter of the week have the child  dictate a word beginng w/ that letter on a large piece of paper and put  the child's name by the word. You can review the words and add more.

or

You can  have  daiy news and have the child dictate a sentence about what is happing in their lives.  You can  repeat the sentence back to them and point to EACH word as you say it.

OR

In kindergaten we use rainbow writing for our word of the day.

Answer 11

We use journals with a given topic. We have pre-k children and many of them are starting to sound out their words and write them down. We have a writing center with everything an office desk would have such as note pads, paper, pencils, pens, envelopes, scissors etc. It is fun to see what the children will attempt. We teach letters both upper case and lower case. Every child learns to print his name before the end of school.