CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.7

ELAKindergartenResearch to Build and Present Knowledge

The Standard

Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them).

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards

What This Standard Means

Kindergarten students need to help investigate a simple topic with the class, using books, pictures, videos, objects, or classroom observations. They then help create shared writing that tells what they learned, what they noticed, or what they think.

Mastery looks like joining the group task, adding a relevant idea, and helping put information into a class chart, sentence, drawing, or book. Students often get stuck repeating a friend's idea, wandering off topic, or sharing personal stories instead of information from the source.

Ways to Teach It

Bring in three leaves, observe them with magnifiers, then help students make a class chart of color, shape, and size.
Ask, “Which book about bears taught us the most, and what did it teach us?” then write one shared opinion sentence.
After reading two pages, have each student tell one fact to a partner, then draw a quick fact picture.
Look up the school lunch menu together, then write a class note naming the fruit choices for the week.

What This Unlocks

Mastery here sets students up for these next.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.7
Kindergarten shared research and opinion writing carry into grade 1 research that uses sources to write ordered instructions.

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