Emergent writers progress through specific stages. Drawing a picture is an example of early writing..... you can tell a story with one picture. (i.e wordless picture books like "Carl") The following are the stages that children navigate through in this process we call writing.
- Marks and squiggle lines.
- A series of unrelated symbols letters and numbers
- Beginning letter sounds
- Child invented spelling or phonetic spelling
- Conventional spelling
In preschool we celebrate all of these stages.
We have begun journaling every morning which is a surprisingly complex activity that involves a multitude of skills from a variety of domains. (Cognitive, language, and fine motor) Oral language and vocabulary development, the ability to articulate an organized thought, story sequencing, and hand eye coordination and pencil control necessary to draw pictures are factors that come into play during this activity. Mrs. Brown and I take dictation, and (the stories) dependent on the child, can be as short as a one sentence one page, or multiple pages and complete stories. I do not give my students any ideas about what to write. Research has shown if children are allowed to write about what they are interested in then they will want to write. Aditionally I could never come up with the imaginative stuff they come up with.
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