Common Core ELAKindergartenWriting

W.K.6: Make and Share Writing with Digital Tools

Also written as CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.6 · Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.

Put a Prompt on the Board All 41 Kindergarten ELA Standards

The Official Wording

With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

Common Core State Standards, Kindergarten, Writing · Read it at the source · Checked October 14, 2026

What W.K.6 Means in Plain English

Kindergartners try out a tablet or computer to make a piece of writing and share it, often with a partner, while an adult helps. Two children photograph their leaf drawing, type “We jump in the leaves,” and add the page to the class book.

The key word is explore: nobody expects typing speed, and a photo of a drawing beside a few typed words is a real page. In 1st grade (W.1.6) the verb becomes use, so the tools are expected to do a job, not just get tried.

W.K.6 I Can Statements

I can find letters on the keyboard to type a word.
I can work with a partner to make a page.
I can share my writing so other people can read it.

W.K.6 Worked Example

Two class-book pages made on the same tablet: one by partners writing together, one by exploring the buttons.

Prompt

Make a page for our class book, What We Love About Fall. Take a photo of your drawing, then type a sentence with your partner.

Not Yet(Photo of the drawing, covered in leaf stickers.) fff fal fallThe buttons got explored but the writing didn’t: stickers hide the drawing, and the typed letters are keys held down, not a sentence a reader can use.

Meets the Standard(Photo of their drawing: two kids jumping into a pile of orange leaves.) We love to jump in the leaves. They go crunch! (Typed by Ava and Leo, one tapping letters while the other said the sounds, then added to the class book.)Two readable sentences typed by the partners themselves, the photo carries the picture, and the page went into the class book, which is the publishing part.

Moves to Use

Take a photo of your drawing first.One partner taps the letters, one says the sounds.Press the space bar between words.Read the page back before you add it to the book.

Common Mistakes with W.K.6

Decorating instead of writing

Twenty minutes of fonts, colors and stickers, and no sentence yet

Try this: Set the order before tablets come out: photo, then sentence, then one sticker, and show a finished page as the model.

One partner keeps the tablet

Leo types every letter while Ava watches

Try this: Give each partner a job, one taps letters and one says sounds, and swap jobs at every new word.

The adult types it all

The page is perfect, and neither child pressed a key

Try this: Let children type the first word themselves, even with invented spelling, and scribe only what is left if time runs short.

Where W.K.6 Fits

Comes BeforeRF.K.1Know how print works: words go left to right with spaces between them, which a space bar makes visible.

AlongsideSL.K.5Add drawings or other visuals to a description, like the photo on a class-book page.L.K.1Print many upper- and lowercase letters, handy when the keys show capitals and the screen shows lowercase.

Comes NextW.1.6Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, with peers and with adult help.

Practice W.K.6

Writing Prompt GeneratorFree ToolPut one prompt on the board for the whole class, then partners answer it together on a tablet and add their page to the class book.On screenGrades K to 2Mix of All

Show a Prompt

Quick Check

In the strong response, how did the two partners share the typing?
One tapped the letters while the other said the sounds.
Where did the strong page end up?
In the class book, What We Love About Fall.
The weak page was made on the tablet too. Why does it fall short?
The stickers hide the drawing and the typed letters don’t make a word or a sentence anyone can read, so no writing was produced.

W.K.6: Other Names

W.K.6CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.6