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By Becky

In my K class, I do not give my students journal topics, they tell me what they're going to write. At the beginning of the year, when they didn't have letter knowledge, it was mostly drawing pictures to tell the story.
I did ask them what their story is about...I would then write what they said. After they began grasping the letters, they would write one word, and then I would write the sentence they wanted. Now, they're writing stories with titles and sentences. Occcasionally I give them a topic, but that's usually just when we are making a page for a class book and they just fill in one word with

a picture. We write everyday, and always at the beginning of writing, I write my own story! When we first began, I just wrote one sentence, and then drew a picture. They all liked to copy my sentence, which I let them do, because we read it a few times togteher and they knew what it said. Now, I don't let them just copy, they have to come up with their own. I still have some students that just write random letters with their pictures, but that's moving toward the writing stage where they connect the letters to the sounds! Hope this helps a little! Good Luck!