Kindergartens Writing Style Analysis

Getting the attention of kindergarteners can be hard sometimes, one way to grab their short attention is by telling them a secret. VanNess starts one of her first writing lessons by telling her students a secret and that secret is that “kindergarteners can write!” (574) When she tells her students they can write, she sees faces light up all around her. VanNess starts out the lessons with something simple and gives some examples of ways to use the word I. She models with the students and once they start to get comfortable with the word she releases them to do it on their own. However, they don’t know how to write very many other words, if any. She uses the gradual release method, which she talks about later in the article.
VanNess starts to research how to help her students become better writers, she ends up disappointed from some professional development but she didn’t let that stop her or even slow her down. She decided to research on her own and she came to the same conclusion of several people had already …show more content…
I think it is excellent that she stands up for what she believes and doesn’t let anything stop her. I think it is great that she has found a way that kindergarteners can write so well. I really like her ability based groups during writing. I think this is a good idea to build students social skills as well because they can collaborate with the students at their table. I can also see how this could be bad if I don’t have good classroom management I think this is something that lacks in some classrooms. Some teachers don’t want to deal with trying to teach them to write or don’t know how. As a future teacher, I need to be aware of this and be sure I am not finding myself guilty of not pushing my students to their fullest potential. I need to strive to help students meet their ZPD. Overall, I think this article had many great points. I think they did a good job at giving all the information and were very honest about