Add Details to Your Writing

Kindergarten ELAWriting3 pages

About this worksheet

The starter story is only "I see a house.", and kindergarten students make it richer. They answer three planning questions (who lives in the house, what color it is, what is outside), with a word box of choices like big, red, dog, and sun. Then they draw the new house and write the new story. A three-item success check ends the page, with boxes such as "I stretched out my words to spell them." It practices Common Core W.K.5. No answer key is printed, since every story will differ.

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Curriculum objectives covered

W.K.5

โ€œWith guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.โ€

The three planning questions act as the adult prompts, and questions 4 and 5 have students add those details to the drawing and the story.

What's inside this worksheet

Starter Story

A small picture of a house and the sentence "I see a house." A challenge box asks for a weather detail, sunny or raining.

Plan Your Details

A box of 12 words (big, small, tall, red, blue, green, dog, tree, cat, sun, bird, happy) and three planning questions with answer lines.

Your New Story

Students draw the house with their planned details and write the new story. The Success Check has three boxes, including "I stretched out my words to spell them."

How teachers use it

Build it on the board

Draw the plain house large on the board and add one detail at a time as students suggest them. Then they do the same on their own sheets.

The weather detail

The weather challenge sits in a box beside the starter story, away from the planning questions, so it is easy to skip. Point to sun in the word box as a reminder before students draw.

Partner suggestions

Pair students and have each partner suggest one detail to add. That matches the W.K.5 wording about responding to peers.

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