Kindergarten Developmental Writing Stages

1. Kindergarten Developmental Writing Stages Ms. Johar’s Class JK /SK 2013-14

2. Stage 1 :Scribbling and Drawing • Writing looks like a random assortment of marks on a child's paper. • Child may or may not believe that writing has a “message” • Sometimes children are able to read these random drawing. Although the marks do not resemble print, they are significant because the young writer uses them to show ideas. • (Caterpillar)

3. Stage 2: Early Emergent Writers • Children begin to draw a somewhat identifiable picture and may be able to describe it. • Letter-like forms emerge as the child imitates writing. • Poorly formed letter like marks are there.

4. Stage 3: Emergent or Experimental Writers(String of Letters) • In the strings-of-letters phase, students write some legible letters that tell us they know more about writing. • They may have a random string of letters that may or may not have any sound resemblance with their story.

5. Stage 4: Early Transitional Writers (Beginning Sounds) • At this stage, students begin to match letters to sounds often only writing the beginning or ending sound to represent a word. • Students are beginning to demonstrate left to right directionality buywill have letter reversals. • They may continue writing string of letters along with some syllables sound. • Beginning awareness of punctuation.

6. Stage 5: Transitional or Early Writing (Consonants Represent Words) • Students at this stage include beginning and ending consonant sounds and may attempt to add vowel sounds. • Awareness of spacing but often improper. • Sight words are used and frequently spelled correctly. • Your child’s writing is becoming easier to read.

7. Stage 6: Initial, Middle, and Final Sounds • Students write more than one sentence with spaces between words. They will have a higher understanding of letter sounds and spelling patterns and apply them to their writing.

8. Stage 7: Transitional • Student writing is easy to read with an increase in conventional spelling. Phonetic spelling is still used for unfamiliar and advanced words. Students are usually using capital and lowercase letters as well as punctuation correctly.

9. Resources: http://www.kaneland.org/d302/depts/ca/curriculummaps/Language%20Arts/K-5%20Writing/Writing%20stages%20rubric%20%20kdg%2009-10%20report%20card.pdfhttp://www.cpin.us/docs/mod_writing2.3.06final.pdf Thank You Every child can be a storyteller and a storywriter.