Writing in Kindergarten

One of my biggest challenges this year has been to teach Reagan to write on her own. She is a perfectionist at heart so it was stressful for her to learn how to “sound out” words. If she didn’t know how to spell it or couldn’t find it using the resources around her (word wall, charts, word books, etc.), she didn’t want to sound it out. She wanted me to just tell her how to spell it so she would get it right. After helping her to recognize that she can sound out words, she has been doing better. I don’t let her know that she has misspelled anything, though! 🙂 Here’s some of her latest writings-