Children playing with Campbell kid dolls
Primary source images are great resources for integrating language arts with social studies into activities that meet Common Core State Standards.
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| Kindergarten Writing Standards | Writing Prompts / Activity Ideas |
| 1. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is…). |
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| 2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. |
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| 3. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. |
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Production and Distribution of Writing | |
| 4. (begins in grade 3) | N/A |
| 5. With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed. | Provide students with feedback (teacher or peer) on one of the prompts. |
| 6. With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. | Publish images and student responses on a blog or using slide presentation software. |
Research to Build and Present Knowledge | |
| 7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them). | Have students compare and contrast two pictures with a similar theme. (CPS teachers: use the Social Science 3.0 Framework as a reference.) Then ask them to describe which picture they prefer. [Grade 1 standard: Why?] |
| 8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. |
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| 9. (begins in grade 4) | N/A |
Range of Writing | |
| 10. (begins in grade 3) | N/A |
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