According to Vacca, Vacca, and Mraz (2011), "Writing facilitates learning by helping students to explore, clarify, and think deeply about the ideas and concepts they encounter in reading" (p. 279). For the most part, I've taught kindergarten and preschool. The students I've taught are in the very early stages of learning how to write. We've always focused on modeling the writing process for students, teaching the writing crafts, allowing students to choose their topics, exposing them to different types of writing (fiction, non-fiction, persuasive, etc.), allowing students to choose their own topics, and giving time every single day to allow students to work on learning how to write. More recently, there has been a bigger push to incorporate writing into every subject area. We had journals for each of the subjects in the kindergarten classroom I taught in last year.
References
Vacca, R.T., Vacca, J. L. & Mraz, M. (2011). Content area reading: literacy and learning across
the curriculum. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
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