Preface
The Teachable Method is a writing curriculum designed specifically for kindergarteners by kindergarten teachers. Using the Teachable Method, your students will be writing stories by the end of the year. Children this age love to write, and the Teachable Method will help them cull their skills as authors while providing a rich background in fine motor skills, phonics, and high frequency words. With just a few minutes out of your school day each day your students writing is guaranteed to improve.
The Teachable Method is a series of lessons that you can begin using within the first weeks of school, and continue using until the very last day. It makes writing fun and easy. The best part of the Teachable Method is that it requires very little preparation, yet still gets results. Let me start by first giving you a little background on how the Teachable Method came about.
When I started teaching kindergarten I knew that I had to teach my students to write, but I had no idea how I was going to do it. I searched through books and books about interactive writing, shared writing, the traits of writing, and so on. I never found a full curriculum outlined for teaching kindergarteners to write, and so many of the books weren’t designed specifically for kindergarten, instead they were designed for early learners, or primary grades, some of them even said K-2 on the front. Now, that is just crazy. There is not one teacher out there who thinks that a curriculum that works for second graders will work for kindergarten students! I turned to the internet, and while I found it to be a wealth of ideas and information, I still did not find a solid curriculum that would work for teaching kindergarten students how to write.
And so, the Teachable Method was born. I have designed a fool proof curriculum with fun and easy lessons to teach kindergarten students how to write so you don’t have to!
Once you have spent your first week of school teaching rules and procedures, most teachers are ready to move on to teaching curriculum. The problem with doing this in a kindergarten classroom is that your students are still so new to the idea of actually going to school and sitting in a classroom that it is hard to make this transition. So, remember that you need to start slow.