Paper Mache - Write and Draw
Teacher Writing Prompt: Draw a picture showing something you would make from paper mache. Be sure to add lots of details to your drawing and labels to explain your work. Then, use the lines below to write at least two sentences telling about what you would make and describe how it looks.
Kindergarten ELA Power NYSCCLS (ICSD Power Standards in Bold)
Writing Standards: Kindergarten
Text Types and Purpose
2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are
writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Production and Distribution of Writing
8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to
answer a question.
Responding to Literature
11. Create and/or present a poem, dramatization, artwork, or personal response to a particular author or theme studied in class, with support as
needed.
Language Standards: Kindergarten
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
c. Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).
d. Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
e. Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
f. Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing .
a. Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
b. Recognize and name end punctuation.
c. Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).
d. Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Writing Standards: Kindergarten
Text Types and Purpose
2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are
writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Production and Distribution of Writing
8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to
answer a question.
Responding to Literature
11. Create and/or present a poem, dramatization, artwork, or personal response to a particular author or theme studied in class, with support as
needed.
Language Standards: Kindergarten
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
c. Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).
d. Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
e. Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
f. Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing .
a. Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
b. Recognize and name end punctuation.
c. Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).
d. Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.