McKeeman+Writing+Grade+K+Curriculum+Map

=Curriculum Map=

August - May

 * Essential Learnings**

**EL 1:** Students will identify themselves as writers.

 * 1) Students will communicate thoughts and ideas through daily journal writing.
 * 2) Students will begin to convey information through use of labeling.

== **EL 2:** Students will express their thoughts using both pictures and phonetic representation of words. ==
 * 1) Students will use pictures to communicate thoughts and ideas.
 * 2) Students will use phonetic spelling to label pictures.
 * 3) Students will demonstrate the relationship between pictures and words.


 * UoS**

Daily Journal Writing and Labeling Practice

January - May

 * Essential Learnings**

**EL 3:** Students will identify and begin to recognize conventions of writing.

 * 1) Students will begin to recognize the appropriate use of: capital letters in names and at the beginning of a sentence, as well as spacing between words and ending punctuation.


 * UoS**

Morning Message and Daily Journal Writing