South Dakota ELA K.W.10

ELAKindergartenWriting

The Standard

Write routinely using a combination of drawing, dictating and writing.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children share ideas often through pictures, spoken sentences, and their own letters or words. They tell an adult what they want to say and add marks or words to the page.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a familiar prompt, a child draws a picture, dictates a sentence that fits it, and adds a letter, label, or word. They can do this on different days with new ideas.
Common Misconceptions: Some children think they cannot write until they can spell every word. Others draw a picture but leave out a detail they could explain aloud, or copy an adult's words instead of sharing their own.
How to Assess It: Ask children to draw something they did at recess, tell you one sentence to write beside it, and add a letter or word to the page.

Lesson moves

Set out crayons and sticky notes; children draw a playground memory, dictate one sentence to you, and add a letter or label.
Show a drawing of a rainy playground and ask, 'What happened before this picture?' Children tell a partner and add one detail.
Roll a picture cube; children draw the object shown, say a sentence about it, and write its first letter.
After watering a class plant, children draw it, tell you what changed, and label one part for a class care log.

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