First writing for kindergarten. Each sheet has a silly picture that is not finished: a dog with an empty dream bubble, a dragon with an empty plate, a box that just popped open. The child draws the missing part, then writes one sentence about it. Six free sheets in three steps, black and white.
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Step 1The dog is fast asleep. What is it dreaming about? Draw the dream in the bubble. Then trace the sentence and write it again.
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Step 1The frog needs a hat. Draw a big, silly hat on its head. Then trace the sentence and write it again.
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Step 2The dragon is hungry! What is for lunch? Draw it on the plate. Then finish the sentence with a word from the picture box.
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Step 2The egg went crack! What came out? Draw it in the egg. Then finish the sentence with a word from the picture box.
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Step 3The box popped open. What jumped out? Draw it above the box. Then write your own sentence.
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Step 3The wizard has a magic jar. What is inside? Draw it in the jar. Then write your own sentence.
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The 6 free sheets and 138 more that are only in the pack. Most of them are 40 pictures for fall, winter, spring and summer, each at three levels, so the whole class can work on the same picture.
There are two sheets for each step, so the drawing stays easy while the writing grows.
Many kindergartners freeze in front of an empty page. These sheets give them a reason to pick up the pencil: a picture that needs finishing. What is the dog dreaming about? What jumped out of the box? Every child has an answer, and drawing it comes before any writing.
The sentence comes second, and it grows in three steps. In Step 1 the whole sentence is there to trace and copy. In Step 2 the start is there to trace, and the child ends it with a word from a box of four pictures, or with a word of their own. In Step 3 the lines are empty and a short checklist reminds the child to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a period.
The pictures are line art, so they can be colored in when the writing is done. When a child can write a sentence alone, move on to the sentence writing worksheets for grades 1 and 2. For letter formation, see the handwriting and name tracing sheets.
More for writing: sentence writing worksheets (grades 1–2), topic sentence worksheets (grades 3–5), graphic organizers for planning, grammar worksheets, and the rest of the writing printables.
Kindergarten, about ages 5 and 6. Step 1 suits the start of the year, when children are tracing and copying. Step 3 suits the end of the year and the start of first grade, when they write a sentence alone.
Drawing gives a young child something to write about. A child who has just drawn a pizza on the dragon’s plate knows what the sentence will say. The picture is the plan for the writing.
Let them write the sounds they hear. In Step 2 the picture box gives four words to copy, and a child who drew something else can sound out their own word.
No. Every drawing and every sentence is the child’s own, so there is nothing to mark right or wrong.