Kindergarten Fall — Print Concepts, Letter Formation, and Oral Language for Writing
English · WR K eng.gK.f.wr.label_drawing

Label a drawing with a word or words

Draw a picture and add 1–3 labels using letter approximations, copied words, or invented spelling.

Mastery threshold
85%
Min instances
10
Typical minutes
25
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • eng.gK.s.wr.caption_drawing
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  • eng.gK.s.wr.dictate_one_sentence
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Common misconceptions
  • Writing across the entire picture rather than next to the object
  • Forgetting that the label must name the object (writing one's own name as the label)
  • Random letter strings with no phoneme correspondence (acceptable at the very beginning but the goal moves to first-phoneme labels by week 9)

Exercise pool (5)

Diff Stem Type
2 Draw a tree. Label three parts of the tree with the first letter of each part's name. draw and label
3 Sound-stretch and write 'fish' the kindergarten way. invented spell
3 Sound-stretch and write 'sun' the kindergarten way. invented spell
4 Draw your bedroom and label five objects with invented spelling (first AND last consonant where possible). draw and label
4 Compose a two-sentence caption with at least one Tier-2 word. caption