- inTroDUcTion
My Writing Journal is a 42 page booklet designed to help
students make critical transitions between the emergent
and early stages of beginning literacy development.
- Using My Writing Journal across the
kindergarten year will help students to:
• Write a narrative, explanatory, and opinion piece
• Plan with a sketch
• Write below the sketch using letter/sound
connections
• Sound through words (beginning hard consonant
sounds, ending hard consonant sounds, spaces, medial
hard consonant sounds, and long vowel sounds)
• Write basic sight words conventionally and with ea...
dma_my-writing-journal_t-g.pdf 
