Kindergarten Weekly Pacing Guide 1st Nine Weeks Unit of Study 1: Launching the Writing Workshop If…Then…Curriculum p. 2-30 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week 1 Introduce the Writing Introduce Routines for a Introduce Writing Materials Pre-assessment First Day of School Workshop Successful Writing And Writing folders Keep on file until the end of Workshop the school year. Week 2 Session 1 Session 1 Session 2 Session 2 Session 3 We Are All Writers: Putting We Are All Writers: Putting Writers Know that “When Writers Know that “When Carrying On Independently Ideas on Paper with Pictures Ideas on Paper with Pictures we are done, we have just we are done, we have just as Writers and Words and Words begun.” begun.” Week 3 Labor Day Holiday Session 4 Session 4 Session 5 Session 5 Writers Call to Mind What Writers Call to Mind What Stretching Out Words to Stretching Out Words to They Want to Say, They Want to Say, Then Put Write Them Write Them Then Put That onto the Page That onto the Page Week 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 6 If…Then…p. 8 If…Then…p.9 Stretching Out Words to Writing Even Hard-to-Write Writing Even Hard-to-Write Write Them Ideas Ideas

Week 5 Session 7 Session 7 Session 8 Session 8 Session 9 Turning Pieces Into Scrolls Turning Pieces Into Scrolls Planning Teaching Books Planning Teaching Books Asking and Answering and Books and Books Page by Page Page by Page Questions to Add More

Week 6 Session 10 Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Session 12 Stretching Out Words to Stretching Out Words to Letter to Teachers: Getting Ideas for Stories and Getting Ideas for Stories and Write Even More Sounds Write Even More Sounds Making Writing the Best It Practicing Storytelling Practicing Storytelling Can Be Week 7 Session 13 Session 13 Session 14 Session 14 Session 15 Planning Stories Page by Planning Stories Page by Adding More Details to Adding More Details to Letter to Teachers: Page: Page: Pictures and Stories Pictures and Stories Stretching and Writing Planning and Telling Stories Planning and Telling Stories Revising Revising Words: across pages across pages Hearing and Recording Sounds in Sequence Week 8 Professional Day Session 16 Session 16 Session 17 Session 17 Bringing Our Writing to Bringing Our Writing to Using Everything to Make Using Everything to Make Life: Life: Pieces the Best They Can Be Pieces the Best They Can Be Adding Dialogue with Adding Dialogue with Speech Bubbles Speech Bubbles Week 9 Session 18 Session 18 Session 19 Session 19 Post-assessment Editing Editing Letter to Teachers: Letter to Teachers: Reading into the Circle : Reading into the Circle : An Author’s Celebration An Author’s Celebration