All About Writing

Kindergarten ELAWriting3 pages

About this worksheet

All About Animals teaches a four-part structure, Point, Evidence, Explain, and Link, with a model about brown bears catching fish with their big paws. Kindergarten students then fill in each part for the question "Are frogs interesting animals?" using starters such as "One fact is that they...". Last, they draw their favorite animal and write about it. It relates to Common Core W.K.2 and W.K.8. This paragraph frame is usually taught in later grades, so most kindergartners will need you to scribe. The answer key has a sample frog answer and one about dogs.

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Curriculum objectives covered

W.K.2

“Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.”

Your Turn asks students to name an animal and supply facts about it.

W.K.8

“With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.”

The frog practice asks students to recall a fact they know to answer the printed question.

What's inside this worksheet

Model Paragraph

A box explains each part with the bear example: bears are amazing, they catch fish with their paws, this shows they are strong and fast, and that is why bears are amazing.

Practice

Four answer lines about frogs with starters: "Frogs are...", "One fact is that they...", "This shows that...", and "That is why...".

Your Turn

Students draw their favorite animal, then write about it using all four parts.

How teachers use it

Shared writing

Do the frog practice as a class on chart paper. Few kindergartners can write four sentences alone, but they can offer ideas for each starter.

Trim to two parts

For many students, Point and Evidence are enough. Cross out Explain and Link and treat Your Turn as a two-sentence fact piece.

Science tie-in

Read a frog book the day before. Students then come with a real fact ready, like the key's example that frogs can jump very high.

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