Whole Brain Teaching: Amazing Kindergarten Writing!

[@TabMcgee]

I am a homeschooling mom and this is great for us as well :) This lady is an awesome Kinder teacher!!! :) So encouraging and great with the kids. AWESOME! :) I'm going to use some of these with my girls at home. Thanks for posting!

[@kellybasocourbitaes5510]

Still an amazing video to watch after all these years. So much work went into the final project! I love seeing how literate our littles can be!

[@lorihill3531]

I can't get over the cuteness and the pure intelligence of these kids. Great procedures!

[@briesfunchannel2964]

Awesome teaching!! One day I want to be a teacher. They did better than people in my grade which is 5th grade!! They also had good reading skills. It looks like they pick the words up quickly and they start to engage. Good job teaching :)

[@dlkennedy521]

I am amazed how well your students are writing. I am a new teacher and I struggle with teaching writing to my first graders. Your strategy is just what I need to help me be successful in teaching writing. Thank you for sharing!

[@dfamilleman9090]

You are such a natural at teaching kinder. What a fantastic way of using kinesthetic motions to teach writing. Also, I love the variety of finger woos you used which makes each child feel special. I am going to try to use some of these techniques with the students I teach.

[@tracydoverspike5255]

I attended a whole brain workshop last spring and it changed my kindergarten program for the better. We use the program above and it really does work. My class has many second language learning students and they were able to do this too.

[@maydacordero8035]

Tracy Doverspike I have an entire class of ELL students. Have you been able to achieve a college level essay with them? I usually get them doing paragraphs, but boy would this be a challenge!! Their language skills are not as advanced as English speaking students'. I think just completing one would seriously take up 2 months to complete!!! 😱 lol

[@tracydoverspike5255]

It takes a long time but you can get there. I start writing on the first day of school and build it daily. My class hasn't made it to long paragraphs as those in the video but it's always a goal. We use Step Up to Writing as our official writing program and add this into it. I do love this program and see how much more my students can do. It does take a long time. We work on our animal research projects for the entire month of May. By the end they write and read their work. We do practice using "college talk" and show how to write what we think and say. I hope that helps.

[@evennumbers2]

Wow! I started using oral writing with my first graders last year. I appreciate the video for all the ideas and inspiration. I can only hope to be as successful as you and your little ones this year.

[@deniseyarde1610]

My mind has just been blown!!!! Totally using this in my class. Thank you so much!

[@julesmccants11]

This is amazing! It makes me hide my face regarding my 5th graders, but on the other hand it shows me all the potential and simplicity of how quickly I can repair the situation. I am on it! Great job Andrea:)

[@mladenkandic2075]

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[@MrsBooks]

I LOVED Your video!!! Shows how much fun it is to learn and with your guidance the kids did an AWESOME job! So helpful...thank you for posting!

[@francine2764]

Amazing how students can be trained at any age. Great job.

[@aurelieyhyyygffgggfggjhhhg2195]

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[@weakvsfire]

Holy cow! They can use commas correctly. Your teaching is really impressive. I'm only a substitute teacher, but I think I'll recommend this to some of the kindergarten teachers for whom I sub. In the meantime, I plan on having the next class I sub answer questions using complete sentences.

[@beverlypettigrew2348]

Very inspirational....Keep up the good work....

[@alisenolan6263]

This is crazy good. Thanks for sharing!!! Keep them coming!

[@lydiademello4898]

Wonderful video. When I write, I always orally say what I am going to write before I actually write it--to hear how it sounds, and saying it orally helps me to think. So many writing methods do not stress how important it is to orally rehearse what one is going to write. During this time, I also revise what I'm writing. Most writing teaches editing as a separate step (when it's an ongoing process). Love your variation on the ten finger . . . . and the scaffold teaching of the progression of the sentence building. Thanks. Very informative.

[@Dawn2928]

Oh my gosh! This kinder class rocks! My bar has risen!

[@Eternal-Student]

Thank you! Stumbled upon you by accident. I'll pinch bits of this and adapt for older kids. So hard to get them to expand sentences! Thanks so much for sharing x

[@haliciayarbrough5871]

Wow! I will definitely try to use this in my future lower level classes. This is great!

[@astriblin71]

Really enjoyed the video... Will be sharing this with my class

[@stoltenb1]

Great video, Andrea! You and your students inspire!!

[@HeeyoungKim100]

Awesome! I wish I would send my girls to your class.

[@12Bleed]

I love this! I am going to try this with my first graders.

[@coopstersteele]

wow, i loved every minute of the 25 minutes i spent watching your video. gleaned a lot!

[@Terri98360]

What an amazing video, thanks for sharing!

[@austinlilycurriculum3279]

Wonderful job. This is great! Keep up the good work.

[@becreativetj]

The oral aspect is awesome. What are the steps to go from oral to written?

[@jmeleestag]

I wonder how long it takes to go from building oral sentences to get to the 5 paragraph triple whammy essay. I am definitely interested in doing this next year with my firsties.

[@brendahere]

wow that is really a great way to get across skills that all students have trouble with, no matter what age.

[@rebeccarockey243]

Inspiring! Love WBT and how it has changed my classroom for the better. I have slowly implemented it throughout the years. I think writing is my next step. Love it, keep up the great work!

[@arambert]

I think so because the calendar in the background says they have been in school for 171 days and its in May.

[@mndclark92]

How do you start doing whammy sentences?

[@pixiegirl1492]

Is Whole Brain Teaching the only behavior management plan that you use? or do you have something else in place, pulling cards, moving clips, etc.

[@KimWallace-q6j]

Hi! I’m a kindergarten teacher in Philadelphia! Just wondering how long you spend in each area of “talk” after it’s introduced. Does this span the whole year? Also, is there a whole brain writing curriculum that can be purchased?

[@Pgcm07]

OMG!! I love it ! Thanks .. I will use this but in my "puertorican version" 😍😃

[@TabMcgee]

Do you know if this was at the end of the school year for kinder??

[@dkennell998]

15:45 - Freudian slip. Awesome vid, awesome method. :)

[@Jibbie49]

R u using some American Sign Language with them? I love that u r talking about college to them as most students are so afraid of the idea of going to college even in high school that they don't go. I've read the books by Marva Collins who founded the "Westside Preparatory School" in Chicago and her method of teaching poor inner-city students required them to learn so much more rather than less. Her books are wonderful.

[@cbrown8846]

How many hours does it take you to plan lessons. Please answer soon, I want to become a kindergarten teacher.

[@msanniefan3195]

How would this work for blind or visually impaired students who may not see the persons physical cues.

[@deboraholszta2963]

College TALK in kindergarten? When do we play?

[@Invictus131313]

Incredible results.

[@kuongjah7]

While the video shows each step in formulating a sentence, it doesn't show the actual writing. How do you go from orally practicing sentences to physically writing them? Where in the video is the WRITING process?

[@mplum4796]

In kindergarten, most "writing" activity is done on an oral level. It's not that they don't write, but for some lessons it's perfectly acceptable to do oral responses.

[@mplum4796]

V Goodan And it is simply a matter of having them write it on paper after that. At least that's what I do in my own class.

[@patriciaargus1842]

i admire their happy birthday.

[@mplum4796]

Oh too cute. ZOOP, URT! I LOVE it!

[@Lovbug98]

What did you say to the children at 1:40 "Let's give him a ________"

[@datrahan]

how do you transfer that to the physical writing of the sentence?

[@reddeer1758]

I am assuming you start off teaching all these gestures orally (because that's what kindergarteners they know). Then later in the year when you do literary (shared writing and reading) you do the same gestures when you model. E.g. do a zoooo/finger gesture when you see or write a comma.

[@tracydoverspike5255]

yes, you practice orally for a long time. I did anyway. Every time we speak we stand and use "college talk". They love it and it helps move it into writing.

[@drsf4692]

LOVE IT!

[@paddyree7734]

I find the use of oral language to practice "building" sentences very intriguing, and the physical movement really keeps them all involved and interested, so the techniques are certainly worth trying. But there is a BIG leap from stating a sentence to writing it down! This makes it look like they just go back after lots of oral practice and start writing. Most Kindergartens have children who don't know their letter sounds yet, much less how to sound out words to write. Some kiddos have never held a pencil much to write any letters. The use of "college" is pretty silly also here.

[@Honeybunches1913]

PaddyRee Not really, I saw this video last year. Although there were questions about transitioning to writing, I went back and implemented the parts I saw into my daily instruction. I was amazed at how my students were able to move to "College" talk. Every time, I asked a questions, they answered in a complete sentence. I then taught my students how to answer questions in complete sentences using "Graduate" Talk. This was my way of teaching them to answer questions using the words from the question. I am going to go back to the website to read all of the information because I want to implement everything including the gestures.

[@daniellesmallm.ed.6148]

Awesome!!!!

[@jennifermassengale6799]

Very informative

[@kmmy8989]

smaaaart! love the video!

[@dailyvlogfan92]

Okay so i am working on becoming a teacher and i scored 200 on both the reading and math praxis (The highest score) exams but am scoring around 150 on the writing so i am trying to start at the very beginning to fix this problem. That being said i am far from being an expert in the area of writing. However wouldn't it be more proper for you to say "please use college talk" when you want them to use complete sentences? Because by doing this you are modeling the "college talk" more then you were when saying just college talk please, right? For example if you want children to use complete sentences wouldnt it be better to tell them "please talk in a complete sentence" instead of just saying "complete sentence please"?

[@wesleydr3055]

Shouldn't it be: My favorite food is pie, because I like the strawberries in it; I like the cherries in it, and I like cream in it.

[@megansutton9699]

How come when I am watching childhood cartoons I end up at real things? Sorry if I asked

[@MelissaCarole13]

Weird!!!!!!!!